Improving LLM Fidelity with Retrieval Augmented Generation using pgvector
Large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm, wowing us with their ability to generate remarkably human-like text. But for all their prowess, these AI marvels still face major roadblocks – especially when...
10 Considerations for Architecting a Multi-Cloud Database
Thinking about architecting a multi-cloud database? It’s an increasingly common topology nowadays. The adoption rate of a multi-cloud approach has been growing fast for years. It’s a solid option for a disaster recovery plan (DRP)...
Best Practices for Scaling A Multi-Cloud Database Infrastructure
Scaling a multi-cloud database infrastructure can be a complex and challenging task, but it's essential for businesses that require high scalability, availability, and reliability. With multi-cloud becoming increasingly popular, organizations are leveraging the benefits of...
What’s new in SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 is the latest database version released by Microsoft in November 2022. The release builds upon previous versions to add more choice for SQL Server users when it comes to development languages, data...
ClusterControl 1.2.12 – The Full Monty Release for MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB & PostgreSQL
The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.12. This release contains key new features, such as support for the latest versions of MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB & PostgreSQL, operational reports and enhanced...
High Availability Read-Write Splitting with php-mysqlnd, MySQL Replication and HAProxy
MySQL Replication is used in a variety of use cases - scale out read workloads, provide high availability and geographic redundancy, offload backups and reporting/analytic jobs. However it has a big drawback - the application...
Webinar Replay: Managing MySQL Replication for High Availability
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s live webinar on Managing MySQL Replication for High Availability led by our colleague Krzysztof Książek, Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines. The webinar included theory discussions bundled with...
Integrating ClusterControl Alarms with Splunk
Splunk is a popular log management tool for our syslog facility. In this blog, we will show you how to integrate ClusterControl alarms with Splunk. We are going to forward the alarm event through the...
A Guide to the Syslog Plugin for ClusterControl
Logging is a fundamental tool for the system administrator. It helps identify whether systems are running as configured, and track any unusual activity when trying to diagnose and isolate problems. Without even basic logging, when...
ClusterControl Developer Studio: Creating Advisors Using the MySQL Performance Schema
In the previous blog post, we gave a brief introduction to ClusterControl Developer Studio and the ClusterControl Domain Specific Language that you can use to write your own scripts, advisors and alerts. We also showed...
Webinar Replay: Polyglot Persistence for the MongoDB, MySQL & PostgreSQL DBA
Many thanks to everyone who took the time yesterday to participate in our last webinar of 2015! Here are the recording of the session as well as the slides that were used by our colleague...
MySQL Troubleshooting with pt-stalk: Part 2
In our last post, we showed you how to use pt-stalk to help gather a bunch of data that can be used for troubleshooting. But what type of data does it collect? How do we...
Percona and Severalnines Expand Partnership to Include MongoDB
Severalnines ClusterControl Helps Organizations Deploy, Monitor, Manage and Scale Percona Server for MongoDB Severalnines, the provider of open source database management tools, and Percona, the company that delivers enterprise-class MySQL® and MongoDB® solutions and services,...
Severalnines Tools: Docker, Puppet, Chef, Vagrant and More
ClusterControl integrates with a number of popular third-party tools for deployment and monitoring - from Docker images to Puppet modules, Chef cookbooks, Vagrant images, and Nagios/Zabbix/Syslog/PagerDuty plugins. In this blog, we’ll have a quick look...
Managing Your Database logfiles with ClusterControl
Earlier in the blog series, we touched upon deployment of clustering/replication (MySQL / Galera, MySQL Replication, MongoDB & PostgreSQL), management & monitoring of your existing databases and clusters, performance monitoring and health, how to make...
MySQL Troubleshooting with pt-stalk: Part 1
In our previous posts, we have covered different log files and how to use them to troubleshoot MySQL, but that is not all that MySQL has to offer. But what do you do when the...