Severalnines was pleased to yet again sponsor Percona Live Europe which was held this year in Frankfurt, Germany. Thanks to the Percona Team for having us and the great organisation. At the Conference Severalnines team...

Deploying a database cluster is not rocket science - there are many how-to’s on how to do that. But how do you know what you just deployed is production-ready? Manual deployments can also be tedious...

As we wrap up our last blog of 2017 we wanted to reflect on what content we have been creating that’s been resonating and generating the most interest with our readers. We will continue to...

Many thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s webinar on how to manage MongoDB and Percona Server for MongoDB! The replay is now available for viewing online. For this webinar we’d teamed up with...

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...

Galera Cluster is a synchronous multi-master replication plugin for InnoDB or XtraDB storage engine. It offers a number of outstanding features that standard MySQL replication doesn’t - read-write to any cluster node, automatic membership control,...

Today we are pleased to announce the 1.4.2 release of ClusterControl - the all-inclusive database management system that lets you easily deploy, monitor, manage and scale highly available open source databases - and load balancers...

Back in the days when somebody said MySQL, there was only the MySQL. You could pick different versions (4.0, 4.1) but the vendor was the same. This changed around MySQL 5.0/5.1 when Percona decided to...

Severalnines was one of the sponsors of Percona Live 2017 last week in Santa Clara, California and in case you missed the event here are some of the highlights. Our Booth at the Event Keynote...

  In the previous blog post, we discussed how gh-ost works internally and how it compares to Percona’s pt-online-schema-change. Today we’d like to focus on operations - how can we test a schema change with...

  Database schema change is one of the most common activities that a MySQL DBA has to tackle. No matter if you use MySQL Replication or Galera Cluster, direct DDL’s are troublesome and, sometimes, not...

  This week we’re happy to announce that our new DevOps Guide to Database Backups for MySQL & MariaDB is now available for download (free)! This guide discusses in detail the two most popular backup...