by Matt Yonkovit | Jun 14, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Open Source
I frequently talk to our customer base about what keeps them up at night. While there is a large variance of answers, they tend to fall into one of two categories. The first is the conditioned fear of some monster lurking behind the scenes that could pounce at any... by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 26, 2018 | Cloud, MySQL, Percona Live, Percona Services
The requirements for managing and running a database in a modern enterprise have evolved over the past ten years. Those in charge of running enterprise databases have seen their focus shift from ensuring access and availability, to architecture, design and scalability... by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 24, 2018 | Cloud, MongoDB, Percona Live, Percona Software
Percona’s new services and software products, including a new Percona DBA service, new support tiers, and the general availability of Percona Server for MongoDB 3.6, the latest version of Percona’s free, enhanced, drop-in replacement for the MongoDB... by Matt Yonkovit | Mar 20, 2018 | Percona Software
This blog post contains a poll that helps us find out what Percona software the open source database community is using.Nearly 20 years ago, Netscape released the source code for its Netscape Communicator web browser. This marked one of the biggest moments... by Matt Yonkovit | Mar 13, 2018 | Insight for DBAs, Percona Live, Security
In this post, we discuss database security compliance, what you should be looking at and where to get more information.As Percona’s Chief Customer Officer, I get the opportunity to talk with a lot of customers. Hearing about the problems that both their... by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 19, 2015 | MongoDB
We are excited this week to welcome David Murphy to Percona as our Practice Manager for MongoDB®. A veteran of ObjectRocket, Electronic Arts, and Rackspace, David is a welcome addition to our team and will provide vision, direction and best practices for all... by Matt Yonkovit | Apr 6, 2015 | MySQL, Percona Services
Every day hundreds of millions of dollars are wasted by allowing improperly tuned or misconfigured systems, misunderstood infrastructure, and inefficient IT operations to live and thrive in data centers around the globe. There are both direct and indirect costs... by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 12, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
This is part 3 of my Tyrant extra’s, part 1 focused on durability, part 2 focused on the perceived performance wall.#3. Tokyo Cabinet Can have only a single writer thread, bottlenecking performanceWhen writing an application using Tokyo Cabinet only... by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 11, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Continuing my look at Tokyo Tyrant/Cabinet and addressing some of the concerns I have seen people have brought up this is post #2.#2. As your data grows does Tokyo Cabinet slow down?Yes your performance can degrade. One obvious performance... by Matt Yonkovit | Nov 10, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 19, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
This is part 3 of our series. In part 1 we talked about boosting performance with memcached on top of MySQL, in Part 2 we talked about running 100% outside the data with memcached, and now in Part 3 we are going to look at a possible solution to free you... by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 16, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
Part 1 of our series set-up our “test” application and looked at boosting performance of the application by buffer MySQL with memcached. Our test application is simple and requires only 3 basic operations per transaction 2 reads... by Matt Yonkovit | Oct 15, 2009 | Benchmarks, Cloud, MySQL
All to often people force themselves into using a database like MySQL with no thought into whether if its the best solution to there problem. Why? Because their other applications use it, so why not the new application? Over the past couple...