#MySQL articles and events

Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source dat...

Percona is a Silver sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America, November 9-12 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Find us in the Solutions Showcase to talk database...

A MySQL InnoDB Cluster provides high availability for a single database cluster using Group Replication. This works well for node failures inside the cluster, b...

The Percona Community Slack is open — come hang out There’s a new place for the people behind the databases to actually talk to each other....

You’ve fixed something gnarly in production this year. You’ve migrated a database that nobody wanted to touch. You’ve built something on top of Percona Operator...

Traditional MySQL troubleshooting assumes you control the server, but in the cloud, that assumption is gone. In this session, Sveta Smirnova will explore practi...

Introduction Many MySQL configurations inherit redo log sizing from defaults, aging blog posts, or configuration folklore....

Starting with version 1.1.0, the Percona Kubernetes Operator for MySQL now supports incremental backups. This feature lets you backup only the changed data sinc...

Introduction Many MySQL setups begin life with a familiar incantation:...

Percona is proud to be a Silver Sponsor of Kubecon Europe 2026, one of the most important gatherings for the cloud native and open source ecosystem. The event w...

MySQL Security Best Practices: A Practical Guide for Locking Down Your Database Introduction MySQL runs just about everywhere. I’ve seen it behind small persona...

There is a special kind of boredom that only database people know. The kind where you stare at a server humming along and think, surely there is something here ...

Percona had a strong presence at FOSDEM 2026, taking place January 31 – February 1, 2026, at the ULB Solbosch Campus in Brussels, Belgium....

There’s a lot of discussion about comparing Kubernetes operators for Postgres, but what about how Postgres operators compare to operators for other databases?...

Configuring the Component Keyring in Percona Server and PXC 8.4 (Or: how to make MySQL encryption boring, which is the goal)...