PostgreSQL offers a robust, open-source, reliable, and flexible database system allowing businesses to scale their data operations effectively. PostgreSQL continues to improve to meet the needs of modern applications. One of its recent improvements is...

Clustercontrol v2.3.1 is here, packed with powerful new enhancements to simplify database management and ensure high availability across databases. This release introduces PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Logical Replication and expands support for Valkey Sentinel v8.0, an open-source...

Our brand promise, “Database ops your way”, rests on three pillars: accessibility, portability and selection. That is why we’re thrilled to share that ClusterControl’s powerful automation platform for managing on-prem and hybrid deployments is now...

Cryptography has always been at the heart of data security, but it wasn’t always the standardized process we see today. In the past, it was more of an art, with different organizations developing their own...

Performance optimization, or "performance tuning," is an ongoing process, not a one-time task. After making changes and testing them, continuous monitoring is essential to determine if further adjustments are necessary. This applies to Elasticsearch and...

Clustercontrol (CC) v2.3.0 is now live, featuring new enterprise binaries support for Percona Server Pro clusters and support for MySQL v8.4, Elasticsearch v8.15, and Valkey v8.0. Let’s dive into these key updates and discover what’s...

We recently attended and spoke at the 2024 Data Community Conference in Bern. Leading voices in IT and database management came together for one day to discuss wide-ranging topics, covering everything from improving sustainability within...

From Conf42 to SREdays, the brothers Mark and Miko Pawlikowski bring developers, DevOps engineers, analysts, executives, etc from all over the world to learn from each other. Conf42 is a series of online tech events...

Data security is crucial in today’s world. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is everywhere - emails, names, addresses, personal ID numbers and so on. There are regulations in place that organizations managing PII have to comply...

Clustercontrol (CC) v2.2.0 is now live, offering a new Redis alternative in response to recent licensing changes, along with improved support for MariaDB 11.4 and Ubuntu 24.04. Let’s explore the key updates and see what’s...

Cloud computing is a core part of today's world with more and more organizations moving their critical applications to the cloud. This shift highlights the need to manage and protect data, especially with the growing...

In the early days of Elasticsearch, security features were less robust than those of the latest versions. For instance, versions prior to version 6.3 did not include the open-source X-Pack extension. As of version 8.0,...