In a previous blog, we wrote about about the architecture of  hybrid cloud databases. Having database instances in different datacenters sounds all good, but how do you manage all that? How do you know if...

A hybrid cloud refers to mixed computing, storage, and services environment made up of on-premises infrastructure, private cloud services, and a public cloud orchestration among the various platforms. Using a combination of public clouds, on-premises...

Relying only on on-premises infrastructure may limit how quickly organizations can develop and launch applications. Extending the infrastructure to utilize public cloud in a hybrid setup is a great way to achieve infrastructure agility. It...

Database as a Service (DBaaS) is a service model that offers automated deployment, high availability, scalability, easy to use and eliminates management of your database infrastructure. There are two options for having “managed databases”, you...

As the most popular open source database, MySQL has been implemented in many places, from small startups to very large organizations. Use cases vary from simple website applications to mission critical environments with 99.999% uptime...

As companies move more of their infrastructure to the cloud, they become increasingly reliant on cloud vendors. From an engineering perspective, IT’s focus is on building solutions for the business and ensuring a fast rollout...

These are, in our opinion, the top five DBaaS providers on the market. Each provides support for various types of open source databases. It is inevitable that the cloud tech giants (e.g. Amazon, Google, and...

In this blog post, we are going to look into how to deploy a MariaDB replication setup in a multi-cloud environment. Suppose our primary application is located at AWS, it's the best idea to set...

A single point of failure (SPOF)  is a common reason why organizations are working towards distributing the presence of their database environments to another location geographically. It's part of the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity...

With the technology available today there is no excuse for failing to recover your data due to lack of backup policies or understanding of how vital it is to take backups as part of your...

In our last blog we discussed the offerings available within Amazon Web Services (AWS) when running a MySQL Galera Cluster. In this blog, we'll continue the discussion by looking further at what the offerings are...

Where to Start? The best place I could find to start was none other than the official documentation. There is also a GCP Youtube channel for those who prefer multimedia. Once finding myself into the...