We’re happy to announce that our new whitepaper PostgreSQL Management and Automation with ClusterControl is now available to download for free! This whitepaper provides an overview of what it takes to configure and manage a...

Automatic failover for MySQL Replication has been subject to debate for many years. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? For those with long memory in the MySQL world, they might remember the...

At the time of writing this blog, MongoDB is the world’s leading NoSQL database server, and (per DB-Engines ranking, the most widely-known ranking in the database industry) the 5th database server overall in terms of...

The picture below was taken in February of this year during our annual company meeting in Lisbon, Portugal; and while the picture was instigated by the author of this blog (I am in marketing after...

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...

Severalnines is excited to announce its newest customer Root Level Technology, a dedicated and co-location hosting provider in the United States. Root Level Tech is a fast growing company with multiple data centers across the...

Last year we launched a ClusterControl integration with chatrooms. We made a Hubot based chatbot, called CCBot, to make your database tier accessible from your company wide chat! The chatbot integrates our CMON backend API...

The free ClusterControl Developer Studio provides you a set of monitoring and performance advisors to use and lets you create custom advisors to add security and stability to your MySQL, Galera, and MongoDB infrastructures. ClusterControl’s...

In a previous blog, we looked at the efficiency gains when automating the deployment of a Galera cluster for MySQL. In this post, we are going to dive into cluster management. Should we manage our...

If you have deployed databases with high availability before, you will know that a deployment does not always go your way, even though you’ve done it a zillion times. You could spend a full day...

Note: This post updated on 28th April 2015 with updated installation steps. Kubernetes is a system for managing containerized applications in a clustered environment. It provides basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance and scaling of applications...

  Installing, configuring, deploying databases and performing repetitive administrative tasks are all part of a DBA’s or sysadmin’s job. This can get pretty repetitive and overwhelming if you are part of a centralized IT team,...