by Sergey Pronin | Feb 24, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR) for MySQL databases is an important feature that is essential and covers common use cases, like a recovery to the latest possible transaction or roll-back the database to a specific date before some bad query was executed. Percona... by Sergey Pronin | Feb 12, 2021 | Cloud, Monitoring, Open Source, Percona Software
More and more companies are adopting Kubernetes, but after some time they see an unexpected growth around cloud costs. Engineering teams did their part in setting up auto-scalers, but the cloud bill is still growing. Today we are going to see how Percona Monitoring... by Sergey Pronin | Feb 8, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
Running Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in the cloud is the norm for users today. It provides a ready-to-use database instance for users in a few seconds, which can be easily scaled and usually comes with a pay-as-you-go model.We at Percona see that more and more cloud... by Sergey Pronin | Jan 20, 2021 | Cloud, Open Source, Percona Software, Security
What is Node Draining? Anyone who ever worked with containers knows how ephemeral they are. In Kubernetes, not only can containers and pods be replaced, but the nodes as well. Nodes in Kubernetes are VMs, servers, and other entities with computational power where pods... by Sergey Pronin | Jan 13, 2021 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, Open Source, Percona Software
What is Edge Edge is a buzzword that, behind the curtain, means moving private or public clouds closer to the end devices. End devices, such as the Internet of Things (from a doorbell to a VoIP station), become more complex and require more computational power. ... by Sergey Pronin | Dec 7, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MongoDB, Open Source, Percona Software
Last year AWS was about to ban the “multi-cloud” term in co-branding guides for Partners, removed the ban after community and partners critique, and now embraces multi-cloud strategy.One of the products that AWS announced during its last re:Invent was... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 23, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Kubernetes operators are meant to simplify the deployment and management of applications. Our Percona Kubernetes Operator for Percona XtraDB Cluster serves the purpose, but also provides users the flexibility to fine-tune their MySQL and proxy services... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 13, 2020 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
Our recent survey showed that many organizations saw unexpected growth around cloud and data. Unexpected bills can become a big problem, especially in such uncertain times. This blog post talks about how Kubernetes scaling capabilities work with Percona Kubernetes... by Sergey Pronin | Nov 4, 2020 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Software, Security
Kata containers are containers that use hardware virtualization technologies for workload isolation almost without performance penalties. Top use cases are untrusted workloads and tenant isolation (for example in a shared Kubernetes cluster). This blog post describes...