The what, why, and how of Elasticsearch failover
Elasticsearch failover - what is it? Why did it happen? Why would you bother? Failover is a common situation in a database world. Some failovers are planned upfront, tested in detail and executed by following...
The most noteworthy improvements in MariaDB 10.11
Improving on its predecessor, MariaDB 10.6, MariaDB 10.11 is the latest long-term stable series. It was released in February 2023 with ClusterControl support introduced in August of the same year. So what's new? We'll take...
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...
ClusterControl adds Enterprise Binaries and new GUI in latest release
We’re excited to announce that ClusterControl v1.9.7 is now available! This latest release brings a major milestone —the official launch of our new web frontend, ClusterControl GUI v2. With a host of new features and...
4 Major Challenges of Operating A Multi-Cloud Database
Multi-cloud databases tend to be quite complex in terms of environment design. There are multiple aspects that have to be considered before deciding on the way the environment will be built. But you have to...
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)...
Enabling enterprise logging with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and ClusterControl
Today’s typical enterprise database deployment footprint consists of different types of databases, each suited to the applications serving specific business needs. This may include SQL (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQL Server, etc) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis,...
Challenges of multi-cloud architectures and how to address them
The cloud has revolutionized the way businesses operate, and multi-cloud is a concept that has been increasing in popularity over the last few years. With its ability to support geo-distributed topologies and provide robust disaster...
Sovereign DBaaS and telco with Circles.Life and Screaming in the Cloud
Kannan Solaiappan, Head of Reliability and Data Engineering of Circles.Life, joined Corey Quinn of the Screaming in the Cloud podcast to discuss the challenges of building a highly-reliable Telco SaaS platform and how implementing a...
Severalnines named a 2022 IDC Innovator in PaaS
An IDC Innovators Report published November 18, 2022, included us in a diverse group of five innovators offering application development and deployment solutions for the cloud Platform-as-a-Service market. IDC research director and report author Lara...
Introduction to the Severalnines ClusterControl API and SDK – Part I
This is Part I of a multi-part Several9s blog series on how to use Severalnines' ClusterControl REST API client SDK to programmatically control ClusterControl in order to accomplish many facets of database life cycle management...
Severalnines and Safespring partner to enable Sovereign DBaaS for European Cloud Market
We’re happy to announce our partnership with Safespring to offer PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster, and Redis as services on their OpenStack-based public cloud. Because of the business risks it poses, one significant area of...