MySQL Performance Blog
Since Valkey (a fork of Redis) is around the corner, I thought to write a short blog post about some of the configuration parts, mainly discussing how to dynamically change certain settings and persist those inside the configuration file.Disk persistenceLet me start with a very important setting, which is “SAVE,” that helps in performing a […]
MongoDB offers powerful features and scalability, but like any database system, it has security challenges that must be addressed to protect sensitive data as well as comply with regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and AM/ATF. A single breach can significantly impact a business, and failure to establish sufficient security measures can result...
MySQL 8.4 has now been officially released, and this is a quick review of what is in the release notes. This is momentous as it is designated a Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Various 8.0 releases introduced material changes that impacted speed and stability, causing hair-pulling and swearing among those affected. Please note this is a […]
There are many cases where external connection poolers like pgBouncer become unavoidable despite the costs and complexities associated with them. PgBouncer is one of the most popular external connection poolers for PostgreSQL. It is thin and lightweight, so it doesn’t have built-in authentication features like LDAP, which is essential for many enterprises....
For me, the Redis story starts with… Memcached. Back in the early 2000s, “Web 2.0” was being built following the aftermath of the dot-com crash. The open source LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP/Perl/Python) stack was all the rage. We needed to scale fast but also very efficiently, and caching became one of the core technologies to achieve […]
The tech preview version of the pg_tde extension for PostgreSQL 16 was released on March 28th, with many improvements compared to our previous MVP release. In addition to lots of bug fixes, the new release supports multi-tenancy and key rotation with a simplified configuration mechanism. Note that the Tech Preview release is not recommended for […]
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