I got a question a while ago about how Percona Server handles corrupted data more gracefully than the standard MySQL server from Oracle. The short version is that it won’t crash the whole server. With standard MySQL from Oracle, if any page of data in InnoDB is found to be corrupt, the entire instance will [...] [...more]
One of the long term testing goals for Drizzle is to move all of our test logic directly in-tree. Currently, we use a system called drizzle-automation to execute a variety of tests for our staging branch. This is the final set of tests patches must pass before being allowed to merge into Drizzle trunk and [...] [...more]
An important contribution to the success of the Amazon Web Services is the willingness to listen closely to our customers and to use this feedback to drive the feature roadmap of a service. I am excited that today both the Route 53, the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams [...] [...more]
In a recent blog post, I wrote about four fundamental metrics for system performance analysis. These are throughput, residence time, “weighted time” (the sum of all residence times in the observation period — the terminology is mine for lack of a better name), and concurrency. I derived all of these metrics from two “even more [...] [...more]
We’ve just rented more rooms, and published an additional two tracks of speakers for Percona Live in New York on May 26th. The schedule is here. There is a long queue of speaker submissions we’re finalizing and will be adding to the schedule, to fill the few empty slots in those new rooms. My favorite [...] [...more]
