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...

Enjoy it while it lasts, as everything has its end.Maricon454688973982390893280398289038302380283’2233’832’23, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsIt sounded a bit more cryptic than it was planned, but I hope that it gets the attention it needs, as it’s important to know that MongoDB 4.2 in April has reached its End of Life (EOL), and more versions are...

Historically MySQL is great in horizontal READ scale. The scaling, in that case, is offered by the different number of Replica nodes, no matter if using standard asynchronous replication or synchronous replication.However, those solutions do not offer the same level of scaling for writes operation.Why? Because the solutions still rely on writing in...