In November 2023, Bill Gates wrote an article about how AI would change the way we interact with computers and personal devices through so-called Agents: “Agents are not only going to change how everyone interacts with computers. They’re also going to upend the software industry, bringing about the biggest revolution in computing since we went from...

MySQL and MariaDB are two major open source database management systems that share a common codebase and history. MariaDB started as a MySQL fork in 2009 to provide an alternate database version following Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL.While MariaDB has many features and has grown in popularity among users seeking a more open and community-driven development...

You may have heard about Unisuper’s problem last week; see here. The $135 billion dollar company’s data was wiped off its cloud, and everything disappeared—zip, zero, nada. Everything they relied upon was gone. Their Google Cloud experience has been labeled an “unprecedented occurrence.” Wouldn’t you like to hear the audio recording of the help desk...

Ensuring your monitoring system stays up and running is vital. High availability (HA) minimizes downtime for Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) during hardware failures, in times of disaster recovery, or increased usage of the tool. It’s not just about extra storage, RAM, or CPU but rather having redundant systems ready to take over seamlessly,...

Valkey 7.2.5 has been officially released as the first General Availability (GA) version, a significant milestone for the project. It is now available in multiple formats: as an official Docker container, through Fedora/EPEL yum repositories, and as binary tarballs for both Ubuntu Bionic and Ubuntu Focal. This availability ensures straightforward installation...

If you were to ask me the question, “Would it be possible to set up a replicate filter within the Percona XtraDB Cluster?” my immediate response would be to question you right back. Why would you even want the cluster nodes to have different data when you’re using a synchronous replication cluster? That’s because, instinctively, […]