Installing Redis Master-Slave with Manual Failover
The use of in memory databases as a data structure layer for storing frequently accessed data is on the rise. Infrastructure built for high concurrent traffic typically use an in memory database layer to implement...
Best Practices in Scaling Databases: Part 1
All of you have heard about scaling - your architecture should be scalable, you should be able to scale up to meet the demand, so on and so forth. What does it mean when we...
Understanding MySQL’s New Heatwave
Data Analytics is important in any company as you can see what happened in the past to be able to make smart decisions or even predict future actions using the existing data. Analyze a huge...
Full Ops Automation of your Hybrid Cloud Database
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...
Automate Database Health Check
Ensuring the database is healthy is one of the critical and important things that a database administrator must do. If we neglect the maintenance of the database, there is a higher probability that we run...
MongoDB Database Deployment Automation
Organizations are making use of infrastructure in the cloud because it offers speed, flexibility, and scalability. You can imagine if we can spin up a new database instance with just a click, and it takes...
Announcing CCX Database as a Service from Severalnines
We at Severalnines are thrilled to announce the release of CCX, our brand new database as a service (DBaaS) offering! It’s a fully managed service built atop the powerful ClusterControl automated operational database management...
How to use Encryption to Protect MongoDB data
With many kinds of data stored in the database, sometimes we may be dealing with confidential data, which might include credit card data, financial record, personal information. Those PII (Personal Identifiable Information) data is subject...
How to Get Started With Database Automation
Database automation helps make complex and time consuming tasks simple and fast. The tasks most commonly and easily identified for automation are those that are time-consuming yet repetitive. These often consume productivity, and can affect...
Audit Logging for MongoDB
One of the security aspects of managing a database is to understand who accessed the database, when, and what did they do. Although we have already secured the MongoDB service, we still want to know...
Leveraging Zero Trust Technologies
What is Zero Trust? Today's cloud environments are generally predicated on the use of public, or rather, untrusted networks. In such untrusted networks, the application of security models that have been used in traditional perimeter...
Architecting for Security : A Guide for MongoDB
The prevalence of data breaches is no longer surprising. Based on the just released FBI cybercrime report, victims of cybercrime have cumulatively lost a whopping $4.2 billion in 2020 which is $700 million more than...