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After a looong break, I’m back in open source. I have officially joined Percona - the open-source database experts. And I jumped in headfirst: straight to PGCon...
November 13 #Community #Events #PostgreSQL #PGConf EU
A PostgreSQL restore can recover every row and still leave the application unable to insert the next one. To understand why, we need to look at ownership, table...
November 12 #PostgreSQL #Backups #Security
Let’s say you’re processing events from an API into your CRM. An event comes in and tells you that a particular contact is a Director at a company. So you updat...
November 4 #PostgreSQL #Webhooks #CRM #Concurrency
Percona has open sourced kmipclient, a new KMIP library in C++ for applications that need to talk to a key management system over a standard protocol instead of...
November 3 #KMIP #Encryption #Security #C++
I’ll be the first to admit it. I’m not a technical guy. I am, however, observant and curious—two traits that play a major role in my efforts to learn and collab...
October 29 #Community #Events #Open Source #Valkey
I’m a long term user of MySQL with both asynchronous replication and synchronous with PXC. For a while now this has been on Kubernetes with either Helm deployme...
October 29 #PostgreSQL
Two successful reservations of three units should reduce stock from ten to four. A read-calculate-write operation can instead leave seven: both clients overwrit...
October 27 #PostgreSQL #Concurrency #Testing #Docker
A migration plan can name every component and still leave the useful question unanswered: if the move fails, can the application work again? A dump file is not ...
October 20 #PostgreSQL #Kubernetes #Backup #Recovery
Our MongoDB team at Percona works remotely, spread across many countries and time zones. Most days that works well, but once in a while it helps to be in the sa...
October 19 #Percona #MongoDB #Community #Open Source
pg_stat_monitor started as a fork of pg_stat_statements, built to be a more advanced replacement for it. It provides more detailed information about query execu...
October 19 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #pg_stat_monitor #monitoring
This is a synthetic laboratory example, not a customer production incident. AI assisted with drafting and checking the material....
October 15 #PostgreSQL #Python #Testing #Concurrency
Everyone who follows database news has already heard about the delays of PostgreSQL 19: the major release that was supposed to go GA in September, now scheduled...
October 15 #PostgreSQL #Opensource #AI
I take over apps that were made with Lovable, Bolt or v0....
October 13 #PostgreSQL #Supabase #Security #RLS
On October 1-2, Chernihiv Polytechnic National University held the II International scientific and practical conference “Free/Open Source Software in Education,...
October 12 #Percona #Community #Events #Conferences
Building a Database DBA Lab with Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Percona Monitoring and Management How I built a local database playground, learned a few lessons...
October 12 #OpenSource #Percona #MySQL #Docker
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