Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Bernd Erk, CEO of Icinga. His talk is titled Monitoring Open Source Databases with Icinga. Icinga is a popular open source successor of Nagios that checks hosts and services, and notifies you of their statuses. But you also need metrics for performance and growth to deal with your scaling needs. Adding conditional behaviors …

Welcome to another post in our series of interview blogs for the upcoming Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin. This series highlights a number of talks that will be at the conference and gives a short preview of what attendees can expect to learn from the presenter.

This blog post is with Daniel Lee, a software developer at Grafana. His tutorial is Visualize Your Data With Grafana. This presentation teaches you how to create dashboards and graphs in Grafana and how to use them to gain insight into the behavior of your systems. In our conversation, we discussed how data visualization could benefit your database …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Percona Live Europe 2017 in Dublin

Have you registered for Percona Live Europe Dublin? We have announced some awesome keynotes, and our sponsor list is growing (and we’re always looking for more!).

There will also be a community dinner (Tuesday, September …

“To be competitive with non-open-source cloud deployment options, open source databases need to invest in “ease-of-use.” There is no tolerance for complexity in many development teams as we move to “ops-less” deployment models.” –Peter Zaitsev

I have interviewed Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder and CEO of Percona.
In this interview, Peter talks about the Open Source Databases market; the Cloud; the scalability challenges at Facebook; compares MySQL, MariaDB, and MongoDB; and presents Percona’s contribution to the MySQL and MongoDB ecosystems.

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Q1. What are the main technical challenges in obtaining application scaling?

Peter Zaitsev: When it comes to scaling, there are different types. There is a Facebook/Google/Alibaba/Amazon scale: these …

Come and listen to Percona CEO Peter Zaitsev on Wednesday, September 6, 2017 at 10am PT / 1pm ET (UTC-7) discuss the Percona roadmap, as well as what’s new in Percona open source software.

Reserve Your Spot

During this webinar Peter will talk about newly released features in Percona software, show a few quick demos and share with you highlights from the Percona open source software roadmap. This discussion will cover …

The website or mobile app is the storefront for participating in the modern digital era. It’s your portal for inviting users to come and survey your products and services. Much attention focuses on front-end development; this is where the HMTL5, CSS, and JavaScript are coded to develop the landing page that everyone sees when they visit your site.

But the real magic happens on the backend. This is the ecosystem that really powers your website. One writer has articulated this point very nicely as follows:

The technology and programming that “power” a site—what your end user doesn’t see but what makes the site run—is called the back end. Consisting of the server, the database, and the server-side applications, it’s the behind-the-scenes functionality—the brain of a site. …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day one and day two. Now that you can visualize what’s being offered, don’t forget to register.

If you want a discount code, feel free to email me at …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.2 on August 23, 2017.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

This release contains bug fixes related to performance and introduces various improvements. It also contains an updated version of Grafana.

Changes in PMM Server

We introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.2:

Bug fixes¶

• PMM-927: The error …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

Has a week passed already? Welcome back to the second column. A lot of time has been spent neck deep in getting speakers accepted and scheduled for Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017 in Dublin, as well organizing the conference sponsors.

Percona Live Europe Dublin

At the time of writing, we are six weeks away from the conference, so a little over a month! Have you registered yet? …

Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.2.1 on August 16, 2017.

For install and upgrade instructions, see Deploying Percona Monitoring and Management.

This hotfix release improves memory consumption.

Changes in PMM Server

We’ve introduced the following changes in PMM Server 1.2.1:

Bug fixes

• PMM-1280: PMM server affected by nGinx CVE-2017-7529. An …