by Peter Zaitsev | Apr 30, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the... by Peter Zaitsev | Mar 14, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
Open core is a monetization strategy for open source, where in addition to the open source version, often called “community,” there is an extended version, often called the “enterprise” version, with additional features. There is a lot of value... by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 26, 2024 | Database Trends, Open Source
There is a new controversy in the Linkerd community with reports that many Linkerd users will now need to pay to run the software, and it will only be available under a proprietary license. I do not think this is entirely correct. Here are my thoughts on this... by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 1, 2024 | MySQL, Open Source
FOSDEM is for sure one of the most respected free and open source software-focused conferences in Europe, which is loved by many, myself included. It is from the point of love I am raising concerns about transparency, which seems to be lacking in regard to some... by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 15, 2023 | Database Trends, Open Source
Last week, yet another company — HashiCorp — announced they are changing the license for the majority of their software from an Open Source License (Mozilla Public License 2.0) to a Business Source License (BSL). It is worth noting that, unlike... by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 4, 2023 | Database Trends, MariaDB, MySQL, Percona Software
In this blog post, we will look at the lifecycle and release management for MySQL and MariaDB servers — where we are now and relevant historical background.It is worth noting both MySQL and MariaDB have Community and Enterprise versions. For MySQL,... by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 19, 2023 | Open Source, Percona Events
Percona University is a series of free educational events focused on Open Source and Open Source Database Technology, in particular, run by Percona. We run those events worldwide, both in recognized tech hubs and in locations that do not have a lot of tech events... by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 14, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL
A few days ago, Heikki Linnakangas posted a message in the PostgreSQL mailing list titled “Let’s make PostgreSQL multi-threaded.” This topic got quite a discussion on Hacker News too.The poll I’ve done on Twitter shows there is great... by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 13, 2023 | Percona Events, Percona Live
As I wrote in my invitation blog post, we got fortunate this year – Percona Live 2023 took place right after the Denver Marathon, which assembled us to put together a fantastic Database Runs event right before the conference.Percona Staff, Conference Attendees,... by Peter Zaitsev | Jun 1, 2023 | Insight for Developers, MySQL
Updated June 1, 2023.Suboptimal MySQL ORDER BY implementation, especially together with MySQL LIMIT is often the cause of MySQL performance problems. Here is what you need to know about MySQL ORDER BY LIMIT optimization to avoid these problems. Try Now: Free your... by Peter Zaitsev | May 10, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, Percona Software
I have seen many Linux Performance engineers looking at the “IOWait” portion of CPU usage as something to indicate whenever the system is I/O-bound. In this blog post, I will explain why this approach is unreliable and what better indicators you can... by Peter Zaitsev | Feb 23, 2023 | Percona Events, Percona Live
Sure, you ensure your database runs, but have you ever thought about running for your favorite database? You can do just that in Denver, Colorado, on Sunday, May 21, the day before Percona Live 2023 kicks off!We’re partnering with the Denver Marathon to attract... by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 30, 2023 | Insight for DBAs, PostgreSQL, Security
As Ibrar Ahmed noted in his blog post on Transparent Database Encryption (TDE). PostgreSQL is a surprising outlier when it comes to offering Transparent Database Encryption. Instead, it seems PostgreSQL Developers are of the opinion that encryption is a... by Peter Zaitsev | Jan 10, 2023 | Percona Events, Percona Live
Percona Live 2023 takes place in Denver, Colorado this year and with my love of mountains, I thought it would be a crime not to combine it with climbing one of the famous Colorado 14ers (14,000ft+ in height).So we’re putting a team together to climb Mt.... by Peter Zaitsev | Nov 28, 2022 | Cloud, Database Trends, Open Source
At its core, the cloud is a fantastic innovation — I do not think many of us will long for the days when it required days, weeks, or even months to provision a new server. Programmable, instantly accessible infrastructure comes with so much flexibility. It... by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 10, 2022 | Percona Announcements
I have decided to step down from the role of CEO at Percona and take on the Founder role. Ann Schlemmer takes over as Percona CEO. I believe at this point this is the right step for the Company and myself personally. When – together with Vadim – we... by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 9, 2022 | Database Trends, MySQL, Open Source
Another day, another company announces it changed its license away from open source while claiming “We Believe In A Model Of Sustainable Open Source.”I’m not sure about you, but this rings to me as similar to an alleged quote about the Vietnam War:... by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 8, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, Monitoring, MySQL, Percona Software
In my previous blog post, ProcFS UDF: A Different Approach to Agentless Operating System Observability in Your Database, I wrote about the ProcFS UDF MySQL plugin, which allows you to get operating systems stats, through the MySQL database, without having shell access... by Peter Zaitsev | Sep 1, 2022 | Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
When you look at database performance, it does not only depend on internal database operations but also on things going on in the operating system, network, storage system, hardware, etc. With that, if you’re building software to help analyze and optimize... by Peter Zaitsev | Aug 25, 2022 | Cloud, Insight for DBAs, MySQL, Percona Software
With the economy slowing down and inflation raging in many parts of the world, your organization will love you if you find ways to reduce the costs of running their MySQL databases. This is especially true if you run MySQL in the cloud, as it often allows you to see...