HAProxy: All the Severalnines Resources
Load balancers are an essential component in MySQL and MariaDB database high availability; especially when making topology changes transparent to applications and implementing read-write split functionality. HAProxy is free, open source software that provides a...
Adding Additional Nodes To a PostgreSQL Replication Setup
Master-slave replication setups can be very useful, as they provide multiple copies of the data for high availability or for scale out purposes. Master slave replication setups can be very useful as they provide multiple...
New ClusterControl Template for Zabbix
We’ve had Zabbix templates for ClusterControl available for three years now, so that Zabbix is able to connect to ClusterControl and retrieve monitoring data as well as alerts. We recently rewrote major parts of the...
Automating and Managing MongoDB in the Cloud
Database management has traditionally been complex and time-consuming. Deployment, with the headaches of security, complex networking, backup planning and implementation, and monitoring, has been a headache. Scaling out your database cluster has been a major...
How to Automate Galera Cluster Using the ClusterControl CLI
As sysadmins and developers, we spend a lot our time in a terminal. So we brought ClusterControl to the terminal with our command line interface tool called s9s. s9s provides an easy interface to the...
Monitoring Galera Cluster for MySQL or MariaDB – Understanding Metrics (Updated)
To operate any database efficiently, you need to have insight into database performance. This might not be obvious when everything is going well, but as soon as something goes wrong, access to information can be...
Understanding the PostgreSQL Architecture
PostgreSQL is probably the most advanced database in the open source relational database market. It was first released in 1989, and since then, there have been a lot of enhancements. According to db-engines, it is...
Webinar Replay: MySQL on Docker – Understanding the Basics
Thanks to everyone who joined us this week as we broadcast our MySQL on Docker webinar live from the Percona Live Conference in Dublin! Our colleague Ashraf Sharif discussed how Docker containers work through to...
Percona Live Dublin – Event Recap & Our Sessions
Severalnines was pleased to yet again sponsor Percona Live Europe, the Open Source Database Conference which was held this year in Dublin, Ireland. At the Conference Severalnines team members flew in from around the world...
Video: Automating and Managing Open Source Databases for Streaming Video Applications
With the global video streaming market expected to grow to US$70+ Billion and the video streaming software market to US$7+ Billion by 2022, it’s no surprise that video streaming is getting a lot of attention...
Considerations When Running ClusterControl in the Cloud
Cloud computing is booming and the cost to rent a server, or even an entire datacenter has been going down in the last couple of years. There are many cloud providers to choose from, and...
DIY Cloud Database on Amazon Web Services – New Whitepaper
We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper DIY Cloud Database on Amazon Web Services: Best Practices is now available to download for free! This whitepaper provides a step-by-step guide to help you build a...