WordPress, the ubiquitous publishing platform that launched millions of blogs and websites, turned 20 on May 27th. While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions.It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added benefit of being...

Hello friends, on certain occasions, some clients, for whatever reason, ask us to migrate a supposedly “equivalent” brand of an engine in terms of belonging to the MySQL family or ecosystem.In this case, we will be analyzing the migration of MariaDB to Percona Server for MySQL 8 in particular. A comment worth clarifying is that, although Percona Server...

Disaster recovery is not optional for businesses operating in the digital age. With the ever-increasing reliance on data, system outages or data loss can be catastrophic, causing significant business disruptions and financial losses.With multi-cloud or multi-regional PostgreSQL deployments, the complexity of managing disaster recovery only amplifies....

Percona is a leading provider of unbiased, performance-first, open source database solutions that allow organizations to easily, securely, and affordably maintain business agility, minimize risks, and stay competitive, free from vendor lock-in.Our Release Roundups showcase the latest Percona software updates, tools, and features to help you manage and...

As a database administrator, have you ever been in a situation when your database confronted a brute force attack? A brute force attack can be launched against a user account in MySQL. MySQL replies with success or error based on supplied credentials, and the time required for the verification is almost the same in either case. Hence, an attacker can...

At the end of 2021, I pushed the first Docker image to hub.docker.com. This was the first official image and since then, we have been improving our testing and packaging procedures based on Docker, CircleCI, and GitHub Actions. However, when I’m coding,  I’m not testing in Docker. But a couple of weeks ago, when I was reviewing an issue, I realized...