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March 18, 2024
Percona XtraBackup 8.0.28 Supports Encrypted Table Backups with AWS KMS
Percona XtraBackup (PXB) version 8.0.28 supports taking backups for the encrypted tables in your MySQL database using the AWS Key [...]
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March 14, 2024
The Challenge with Open Core Software
Open core is a monetization strategy for open source, where in addition to the open source version, often called “community,” [...]
March 14, 2024
Analyzing Slow Queries After MongoDB 4.4
Before MongoDB 4.4, we had a tool to use to analyze slow queries from the log file called mplotqueries from [...]
March 13, 2024
Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environments: Part Two
In Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environment: Part One, I demonstrated a basic Percona Backup [...]
March 12, 2024
Managing Time Series Data Using TimeScaleDB-Powered PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL extensions are great! Simply by adding an extension, one transforms what is an otherwise vanilla general-purpose database management system [...]
March 11, 2024
Percona Operator for MySQL Now Supports Automated Volume Expansion in Technical Preview
Volume Expansion, a feature that became generally available since Kubernetes version 1.24, allows users to increase the capacity of their [...]
March 7, 2024
The Pain of AWS EKS and Stateful Workloads
I really like AWS and the way they build their products, I really do. But for some reason, AWS Elastic [...]
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March 6, 2024
Easy Way to Provision a PostgreSQL Cluster on Kubernetes
If you are reading this blog post, chances are you’re either curious about Kubernetes Operators, or you’ve specifically decided to [...]
March 5, 2024
Help Us Improve MySQL Usability and Double Win!
What makes a great user experience? There are probably as many answers to this question as there are users because [...]
March 5, 2024
Percona Backup for MongoDB 2.4.0: New User-Driven Improvements
Those memes that were super popular a couple of years ago show how you, your family, friends, and boss see [...]
March 4, 2024
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL is Red Hat OpenShift Certified
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL is now Red Hat OpenShift certified. You can now use Percona Operator for PostgreSQL to deploy [...]
February 29, 2024
Transform Cloud-Native Database Management With Percona Everest, Now in Beta
Join our Beta program to have a say in the development of Percona Everest and help us drive its progress! [...]
February 26, 2024
Is Linkerd Open Source?
There is a new controversy in the Linkerd community with reports that many Linkerd users will now need to pay [...]
February 22, 2024
Backing up and Restoring to AWS S3 With Percona Kubernetes Operators
In our last post, we looked into the lifecycle of applications in Kubernetes. We see that Kubernetes doesn’t handle database [...]
February 21, 2024
Using Percona Backup for MongoDB in Replica Set and Sharding Environments: Part One
Backups are crucial for every database system, and having a reliable, fast, and hot backup is the demand for next-generation [...]
February 21, 2024
Securing Percona Everest with Ingress and Cert-Manager
According to CNCF surveys, security is always among the top concerns for Kubernetes practitioners and platform engineers. Percona Everest — an [...]
February 20, 2024
Exploring the Kubernetes Application Lifecycle With Percona
This post was originally published on the Percona Community blog. If you are in the world of application development, you [...]
February 15, 2024
What is a Cloud-Native Database? Everything You Need to Know
A cloud-native database isn’t just a database that happens to be sitting in the cloud; it’s built from the ground [...]
February 13, 2024
PostgreSQL Column Alignment and Padding – How To Improve Performance With Smarter Table Design
In this blog post, we are going to briefly discuss the reasons why column order matters when creating tables -or [...]