Tips for Reducing Production Database Infrastructure Costs
The database tier is one of the most important layers in a system architecture. It must be set up correctly from the beginning due to it being stateful, it is harder to scale as compared...
Managing Your Open Source Databases from Your iPad
With the current COVID-19 situation ongoing, plenty of people have started to work from home. Among those are people whose job is to manage database systems. The lockdowns which have been announced all over the...
PostgreSQL Load Balancing in the Cloud Made Easy
We’d mentioned many times the advantages of using a Load Balancer in your database topology. It could be for redirecting traffic to healthy database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...
Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.6: HA Stack Deployments in the Cloud with HAProxy
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. This new edition expands our commitment to cloud...
Setting up ClusterControl as a Bastion Host for your Database Servers
A bastion host is a gateway host between an inside network and an outside network. It is commonly used to access remote hosts sitting on a different network which has no direct connection between the...
My DBA is Sick – Database Failover Tips for SysAdmins
In case of a database failure, the best case scenario is that you have a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and a highly available environment with an automatic failover process in place. But what happens...
My DBA is Sick – Database User Management Tips for SysAdmins
User management is one of the day-to-day tasks that are performed by database administrators. If your database administrator is not available and you have been appointed to perform his tasks, you may have been asked...
MyDBA is Sick – Database Monitoring Tips for SysAdmins
Database monitoring is a key function for Database Administrators (DBA). With a proper monitoring platform, you can know immediately if there is something wrong with the system. Should your DBA be unavailable and you may...
My DBA is Sick – Disaster Planning & Backup Tips for SysAdmins
The alarming nature of COVID-19 is being felt globally. Many companies have closed or filed bankruptcy because of the global pandemic. Most organizations did not see this coming. Large companies have a better chance of...
My DBA is Sick – Database Security Tips for SysAdmins
The day happened when your database administrator did not show up on the daily online standup. Shortly after you have learned that he’ll be unavailable for an unknown period of time and it is you,...
Implementing a Multi-Datacenter Setup for PostgreSQL – Part Two
This blog is the second part of Implementing a Multi-Datacenter Setup for PostgreSQL. In this blow, we will show how to deploy PostgreSQL in this type of environment and how to failover in the case...
How Performant is Your ProxySQL Node?
ProxySQL has gained a lot of interest right now in the MySQL and MariaDB database world, not to mention ClickHouse which helps make the case for ProxySQL. It’s safe to say that ProxySQL has become...