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MySQL

• Percona XtraDB Multi-Master Replication cluster setup between 3 nodes - Bidhan Khatri - April 22, 2024
• How to perform compressed back of InnoDB Cluster? - Shiv Iyer - January 6, 2024
• MySQL Master-Master Replication Error: “Error Connecting to Master” Error 2003 - Ted James - December 22, 2023
• Detecting unutilized indexes in MySQL - Samuel N Wekesa - September 12, 2023
• MYSQL Database Backup Using Percona XtraBackup - Mohamad Mahmood - October 26, 2023
• How to use pt-mysql-summary to understand your MySQL database server better? - Virinchi T - Oct 10, 2023
• SMS: Schema Migration Solution for MySQL - Tungsten Clustering by Vinay Jaiswal - Jul 31, 2023
• Navigating the MySQL Wire-Compatible Database Landscape Overview - Li Shen - May 24, 2023
• Achieving end to end Database management with PERCONA XtraDB cluster - Sigmoid - May 16, 2023
• Percona Streaming Backup - AJ on DevOps - October 17, 2023
• XtraDB Cluster 5.7 (MySQL) - Meenakshi - September 7, 2023
• Percona MySQL Encryption - Part 1 - Umair Hassan - December 31, 2022
• The Five Best Books on MySQL - Dominik Keller - April 10, 2023
• Boosting Database Performance with MySQL Indexing: Unraveling the Magic Behind Efficient Queries - Rishabh Gupta - Jul 27, 2023
• 3 ways to speed backups of MySQL - Fabricio Pedroso Jorge - Jun 10, 2023
• Update or migrate? Planning for MySQL 5.7 EOL - Dave Stokes - June 22, 2023
• Oracle Support for MySQL 5.7 Ends Soon, Key Upgrades in 8.0 - Jelani Harper - May 30, 2023
• Are you planning ahead for the MySQL 5.7 end of life? [Q&A] - Ian Barker - May 22, 2023
• Achieving end to end Database management with PERCONA XtraDB cluster - Akansha Immanuel - May 18, 2023
• If you don’t brush and floss, you’re gonna get an abscess – same with MySQL updates - Lindsay Clark - May 11, 2023
• MySQL and Planning For End of Life - What Do You Need to Know? - Dave Stokes - March, 2023
• MySQL Incremental Backup & Restore Part-I - solutionamardba - Jan 17, 2023
• How to Backup Mysql Databases on Amazon RDS - Sidra Saleem - December 12, 2022
• MySQL Security Best Practices: a Checklist - BreachDirectory - November 12, 2022
• 10 More Essential MySQL Performance Tuning Tips - Tibor Köröcz and Francisco Bordenave - November 7, 2022
• MySQL/MariaDB Database Performance Monitoring with Percona on Ubuntu Server - Xiao Guoan - October 20, 2022
• Backing Up MySQL Part 2: Percona XtraBackup - Lukas Vileikis - November 16, 2022
• Deploy and Manage Percona XtraDB in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Using KubeDB - Dipta Roy - November 17, 2022
• Install and Configure Percona XtraDB Cluster on Rocky Linux 8 - Shafiq Ur Rehman - September 25, 2022
• MySQL/MariaDB Database Performance Monitoring with Percona on Ubuntu Server - Xiao Guoan - September 15, 2022
• 1.1 million comments from Hacker News: small data full-text / analytics test - Sergey Nikolaev - May 30, 2022
• Percona Xtrabackup Backup & Recovery - Satya - February 10, 2022
• MySQL Percona innobackupex 和 XtraBackup 有何不同? - Tsung - Spetember 14, 2022
• Installation & Usage of Percona Toolkit 3 - Satya - January 28, 2022
• ProxySQL 2 configuration/installation - Satya - January 5, 2022
• Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) 8 - Satya - August 20, 2021
• Upgrading MySQL at Shopify - Yi Qing Sim - December 2, 2021
• Mitigating MySQL Downtime for big migrations - Ashutosh Mittal - November 20, 2021
• Migration from HBase to MyRocks at Quora - Vamsi Ponnekanti - September 14, 2021
• Scaling WordPress to Handle the Largest WordPress Virtual Conference - Tom Fanelli - April 5, 2021
• Percona Toolkit | Altering large MySQL tables with no locks Ultimate Guide 2021 Update - David Shen - March 2, 2021
• Percona Series / Zero downtime migration from 5.7 to 8.0 - Ferenc Fabian (@PumpkinSeed_dev) & Robert Boros - November 19, 2020
• Percona Series / XtraDB Cluster, 8.0 - Ferenc Fabian (@PumpkinSeed_dev) - November 10, 2020
• Percona Series / XtraDB Cluster, 5.7 - Ferenc Fabian (@PumpkinSeed_dev) - November 9, 2020
• Percona Series / Break online schema change - Ferenc Fabian (@PumpkinSeed_dev) - November 3, 2020
• Percona Series / Revolutionise ALTER TABLE - Ferenc Fabian (@PumpkinSeed_dev) - October 30, 2020
• Install Percona XtraDB Cluster on CentOS 7 - Sadegh Khademi - April 15, 2020
• Docker installs Percona and solves the crash problem - Pankaj kushwaha - January 16, 2021
• Upgrading MySQL (Percona Server) from 5.7 to 8.0 - Nikolay Bogdanov - July 3, 2020
• Online Schema Migration with MySQL on GCP (Cloud SQL) - rerorero - March 3, 2021
• How to alter large MySQL tables on production? - Patryk Szlagowski - September 16, 2021
• MySql: Shrink DB partially - Aleksandr Korolev - May 25, 2021
• MySQL (Percona XtraDB) slave replication crash resilience settings - Cosimo Streppone - May 24, 2020
• Zero downtime MySQL master/slave replication with Percona - Rok Nemet - October 7, 2019
• Automation Script For Percona Xtrabackup FULL/Incremental - Bhuvanesh - October 20, 2020

PostgreSQL

• 26 Years Since its Inception, Postgres is Just Getting Started - Charly Batista, Percona - September 20, 2023
• PostgreSQL brings more performance, security to open-source database - Sean Michael Kerner - September 14, 2023
• AWS dragged over lengthy downtime to migrate PostgreSQL DBaaS - Lindsay Clark - February 14, 2023
• 10 Common PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them - Hamid Akhtar - December 6, 2022
• Interview with Percona - PGConf.EU - Umair Shahid - September 22, 2022
• PostgreSQL Person of the Week - Charly Batista (Percona) - July 11, 2022
• pg_stat_monitor :: Younger sibling of pg_stat_statements with more knowledge - Sujith Thiravium - October 19, 2021
• Setup Percona Postgresql Through the Awsesome(OSM) Ansible Role - Abhishek Vishwakarma - October 5, 2022

MongoDB

• Cost savings by migrating from MongoDB on Atlas to Self-Managed - KloudDB Nivas - November 4, 2023
• Running Percona Backup for MongoDB with Docker - Mario García (@mariogmd) - December 27, 2023
• Percona backup for MongoDB by Writtick Sengupta - July 7, 2023
• 10 Best Practices for Every MongoDB Deployment - Zelmar Michelini - April 5, 2023
• Percona Backup for MongoDB Docker - Amritha V - December 29, 2022
• Migrating MongoDB to Kubernetes - Sergey Pronin - December 10, 2022
• 6 Best MongoDB Backup Tools - Stephen Cooper - September 12, 2022
• Deploying a custom MongoDB operator using Helm Charts - Devtron - June 28, 2022
• Percona backup for MongoDB caveats - Ilshat - May 10, 2022
• MongoDB 4.4.13 : Here to SRV you with easier replica set connections - SelvaKumar Kuppusamy - March 30, 2022
• Installing Percona Server for MongoDB on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS - Ryan - March 21, 2022
• Percona Backup for MongoDB with SSL/TLS - SelvaKumar Kuppusamy - January 12, 2022
• Deploy Percona for MongoDB with SSL/TLS - SelvaKumar Kuppusamy - January 4, 2022

PMM

• Efficient Dockerized Database Monitoring with Dockerized PMM by David E. @sagekage - July 31, 2023
• Monitor Databases with Percona Monitoring and Management by Samba Shiva - July 9, 2023
• Optimizing the databases at Quora - Vamsi Ponnekanti - March 1, 2023
• 3 Ways To Set Up A PMM Server - Cloudpress - January 16, 2023
• DB Performance Troubleshooting Workflow Using Percona PMM - - Stanislav Levchenko - March 7, 2023
• How To Set Up Alerts Using PMM - Stanislav Levchenko - March 7, 2023
• How to deploy the Percona database performance monitor with Docker - Jack Wallen - February 24, 2023
• Monitoring With - Percona Monitoring and Management - Rishav Mehra - February 12, 2023
• Perconal Monitoring With Postgres Docker on Local Environment - Vuong - October 2, 2022
• Monitor Percona MySQL / Percona XtraDB Cluster With Prometheus & Grafana - Shafiq Ur Rehman - September 25, 2022
• How to deploy the Percona database performance monitor with Docker - Jack Wallen - September 20, 2022
• Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) - Satya - September 10, 2021
• Monitor your databases with this open source tool - David Stokes - April 1, 2022
• What I really like about Percona PMM - Elisa Usai (@elisetta1984) - January 14, 2022
• Fixing Magento 2 Core MySQL performance issues using Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) - Yegor Shytikov - March 21, 2021
• Percona PMM – A beginner’s guide - Vlad Mihalcea (@vlad_mihalcea) - December 1, 2020
• Monitoring GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL with Percona PMM - Bhuvanesh - September 18, 2020
• Grafana Dashboard for Pgbouncer And Monitor With Percona PMM - Bhuvanesh - November 6, 2020
• PMM Server on AWS: which TCP ports to open - Franck Pachot - November 20, 2020
• Monitor Cassandra Clusters with Percona PMM - JMX Grafana and Prometheus - Bhuvanesh - May 16, 2019
• Tune your databases. Spick and Span - Mayank Sharma - December 2, 2020
• Thanks Percona for this great product called PMM (Percona Monitoring & Management Server) - Prashant Dixit - December 2, 2020
• Configure PMM2 for Azure MySQL Database with SSL - Nirav Shah - June 18, 2021
• The Single Free Database Tool to Improve and Monitor Performance. Every MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MongoDB Admin Should Know It - Tymoteusz Motylewski - August 14, 2022

Kubernetes

• What is a Database Kubernetes Operator? - Inel Pandzic (Percona) - February 4, 2024

• Database Infrastructure with Open Source Kubernetes Operators - Inel Pandzic (Percona) - October 10, 2023

• There are lots of ways to put a database in the cloud – here’s what to consider - Lindsay Clark - September 15, 2023

• Civo Navigate charts further Kubernetes ecosystem progress - Adrian Bridgwater - August 18, 2023

• A Drop in the Sea: Running Drupal on Kubernetes - Initlab - Aug 8, 2023

• The Business Value of Running Databases on Kubernetes - Sergey Pronin - August 23, 2023

• Multi-cluster databases with Sergey Pronin - Madhuri Yechuri - July 19, 2023

• Databases on Kubernetes - Support Your Cloud Native Strategy With Open Source Kubernetes Operators - Sergey Pronin - April 19, 2023

• 5 Challenges for Databases on Kubernetes - Joe Brockmeier - April 10, 2023

• Choosing a Kubernetes Operator for PostgreSQL - Bhavin Shah (Cloud Native BU, Pure Storage) - March 18, 2022

• Deploying Percona Kubernetes Operators using OpenEBS Local Storage - Sudip Sengupta - June 5, 2021

Percona Everest

• Getting to know Percona Everest [Beta] — a tool for managing database clusters - Andrew Fishday - May 30, 2024
• A Love Letter to Our Favorite Open Source Projects - Tyler Au - February 14, 2024
• Setting Up Your Environment for Kubernetes Operators Using Docker, kubectl, and k3d - Edith Puclla - March 4, 2024
• Percona Everest: Transforma la gestión de bases de datos cloud native - Julian Garcia - March 3, 2024
• A New Way to Provision Databases on Kubernetes - Daniil Bazhenov - March 13, 2024
• Lyrid Bare Metal Kubernetes Performance Benchmarking - Handoyo Sutanto (Lyrid) - March 14, 2024
• Introduction to the New Percona Everest Beta - Vinicius Grippa - February 28, 2024
• Building an Open Source Private DBaaS - Piotr Szczepaniak, Percona - November 2, 2023

Working at Percona

• Climbing Pico de Orizaba - Peter Zaitsev - December 2022
• My first month in Percona as a Technology Evangelist - Edith Puclla - August 11, 2022
• A Leader’s Guide to Cultivating Culture in the Age of Remote-first Work - Ann Schlemmer - June 9, 2023

Other

• Benchmark databases in Docker: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server Plus MariaDB, Percona and TimescaleDB by Petr Jahoda - Jan 7, 2021
• Navigating the Evolving Landscape of Cloud Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) in 2024 - Aleksandra Mitroshkina, VMblog.com - December 14, 2023
• Is DevOps dying as a discipline? - The Stack - November 29, 2023
• Heard on the Street – 11/27/2023 - Daniel Gutierrez, InsideBIGDATA - November 27, 2023
• More Than a Refresh - Episode 39: Dave Stokes, Technology Evangelist @ Percona - November 16 2023
• Attending Percona University in Athens 2023 - Vicențiu Ciorbaru, MariaDB Foundation - November 11, 2023
• License to thrill BSL refuseniks? Sentry introduces Functional Source License - Richard Speed, The Register - November 20, 2023
• How To Create A Profitable Open-Source Company Without Venture Capital - Ann Schlemmer, Percona - November 8, 2023
• Vector databases in LLMs and search - Isaac Sacolick, InfoWorld - November 6, 2023
• Safeguarding Your Data – How to Harden Your Systems - Sonia Valeja and Michal Nosek, Percona - October 30, 2023
• How much is enough to support those who maintain open source? - Cliff Saran, ComputerWeekly.com - October 31, 2023
• Linux Foundation Adopting Terraform Fork Provokes Ire of HashiCorp CEO - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, The New Stack - October 25th, 2025
• [Can Gen AI Tune The Database Or Create Better Queries?] - Swapnil Bhartiya and Emily Nicholls, TFiR: Let’s Talk About AI - October 20th, 2023
• What Software License is Better - BSL, Source Available or Open Core? - Peter Zaitsev, Percona - - October 4th, 2023
• Open Source Fights Back: OpenTofu Is the Entrée We Need - Joe Brockmeier, Percona - October 5th, 2023
• Software License Changes and Contributors - What You Need to Know? - Peter Zaotsev, Percona - September 20, 2023
• 20 Best MySQL Blogs and Websites - FeedSpot - September 21, 2023
• How to choose the right storage medium for your organization’s backup strategy - David Howell, ITPro - September 29, 2023
• Open source can’t win: Complacency has its price - Joe Brockmeier, Percona - September 12, 2023
• Onboarding remote employees doesn’t have to be hard - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Computerworld - September 12, 2023
• Server storage snafu stuffs up supernational supply chain - Ed Targett - September 7, 202
• Your Data is Critical - Do You Have the Right Strategy in Place for Resilience - Charly Batista - September, 2023
• EU Cyber Resilience Act antagonises, troubles open-source sector - Azania Imitaz Patel - September 4, 2023
• More Fintech Players Cashing in on Open-Source Offerings - Jack M. Germain - August 10, 2023
• Data resilience - high availability and disaster recovery planning for your data - Charly Batista - August, 2023
• The 13-Types Of Ops - Adrian Bridgwater - August 18, 2023
• What is the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA)? - Kate O’Flaherty - August 18, 2023
• Analysis: HashiCorp prioritizes its business with BSL license switch, but community upset cannot be ignored - Richard Speed, ITPro - August 14, 2023
• Open Source Software Maintainers and Organizations in Conflict - Mike Vizard, Techstrong - August 3, 2023
• What Is The Role Of Open Source During Economic Downturns? - Ann Schlemmer - July 31, 2023
• Bad News for Open Source: EU Committee Approves the Cyber Resilience Act - Christine Hall - July 21, 2023
• EU Cyber Resilence Act moves to next stage, “impending tragedy” for open source? - Tim Anderson - July 21, 2023
• AI, open source and data - the shape of things to come - Peter Zaitsev - July 25, 2023
• Off with their head! Why more tech firms are ditching their HQs - Christine Horton - July 2023
• Red Hat’s code restrictions draw mostly sympathetic response from open-source providers - Paul Gillin - July 13, 2023
• Putting LLMs into production is a monumental task – vector databases could light the way - Lindsay Clark - July 11, 2023
• The importance of mentorship - SHECANCODE with Ann Schlemmer - June 27, 2023
• Developer eXperience series - Percona: DX starts with open source - Joe Brockmeier - July 3, 2023
• DBA Appreciation Day: Are you still relevant in the face of DevOps and AI/ML? - Joe Brockmeier - July 7, 2023
• The Past & Future Of Data Storage: An Analysis By Joe Brockmeier Of Percona - Bethenny Carl - June, 2023
• DBTA 100 2023: The Companies That Matter Most in Data - Stephanie Simone - June 7, 2023
• Top 10 Open-Source Monitoring Tools for Modern DevOps Teams in 2023 - Eduardo Messuti - June 5, 2023
• Percona survey: little movement in database market - Sander Almekinders - May 23, 2023
• “Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 5/22/2023 - Daniel Gutierrez - May 22, 2023
• How do you balance ever-increasing amounts of data while optimising operational costs? - Ann Schlemmer - May 22. 2023
• 93% of organizations have database management tools in place - May 25, 2023
• How Database Automation ‘Liberates’ Software Developers - Adrian Bridgwater - May 10, 2023
• Why Platform Engineering? - Isaac Sacolick - May 1, 2023
• After the Docker Free Team Episode: How to Sunset a Free Feature - Emily Omier - April 24, 2023
• Percona Engineering Lead: Into the ‘Open’ Database Universe - Barrett Chambers and Adrian Bridgwater - April 14, 2023
• FerretDB 1.0 Offers Fresh Approach to Open Source Document Databases - Lindsay Clark - April 14, 2023
• Challenging Yourself Through Open Source with Peter Zaitsev of Percona - Emily Omier - March 22, 2023
• Executive Interview – The Future of Platform Engineering - Editorial Team HostingJournalist - March 16, 2023
• Open Source Software: Top Sites - Emma Crockett - March 15, 2023
• Arm has legs: VMware’s Bitnami starts packaging apps for Graviton and Ampere - Simon Sharwood - February 27, 2023
• The Spectrum Of IT Partnerships - Adrian Bridgwater - February 26, 2023
• Entrepreneurship for Engineers: 4 Lessons about Revenue - Emily Omier - February 24, 2023
• With interest in cloud repatriation on the rise, platform engineering eases developers’ pain of on-prem database provisioning - Donnie Berkholz - February 10, 2023
• The Future For Open Source - Adrian Bridgwater - February 6, 2023
• IT Leaders’ Tech Predictions for 2023 - Rick Dagley - January 13, 2023
• Why a DataOps Team Needs a Database Reliability Engineer - Jennifer Riggins - January 16, 2023
• What to Expect in the World of Open-Source Databases - Donnie Berkholz - January 11, 2023
• Facing Data Dilemmas: Is There A Simple Fix For CIOs? - Ann Schlemmer - January 5, 2023
• Solutions Review Names 9 Data Management Vendors to Watch, 2023 - Timothy King - December 15, 2022
• Data Protection Predictions from Experts for 2023 - Timothy King - December 13, 2022
• Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2023 - Stephanie Simone - December 8, 2022
• The Future for Open Source Lies in Platforms, not Projects - Ann Schlemmer
• The Future of Open Source in 2023 - Ann Schlemmer - November 18, 2022
• Deploying and Managing Open Source Databases - Ann Schlemmer and Mike Vizard
• Peter Zaitsev Of Percona: 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became a CEO - Peter Zaitsev - November 14, 2022
• Don’t miss these talks on the Google community track at Percona Live Online - Jan Kleinert - March 3, 2021