Database Performance Frameworks
Database Performance Frameworks Database Performance is a primary concern for Database Administrators today. How can one make sense of all the data that we collect to analyze the performance of…
Required Database Telemetry
Required Database Telemetry Database performance is critical to your role as a database administrator. This shouldn't be a surprise. If the database is slow, the application is slow. If the…
PMM in the Data Guardian Toolbox
PMM in the Data Guardian Toolbox Database performance is one of the primary responsibilities of database administrators. Unfortunately, many are flying blind and have no idea how the database is…
Data Linchpins Needed
Data Linchpins Needed This has been a crazy year and a half. And for many people it has not been a good one. There's been a lot of shakeup in…
Terraform in the Data Guardian Toolbox
Terraform in the Data Guardian Toolbox Infrastructure as Code is defining your infrastructure in terms of configuration files and scripts. More and more, Database Administrators need to learn the principles…
Infrastructure as Code For Database Workloads
Infrastructure as Codefor Database Workloads As a database administrator, you may be used to manually installing and managing your database infrastructure. Perhaps you have heard of a concept called Infrastructure…
Blameless culture
Blameless culture Have you ever made a mistake on a production system? Maybe you spent hours restoring the wrong backup. Or maybe you dropped the wrong table. What were you…
MySQL on Kubernetes
MySQL on Kubernetes There is a rising interest in running stateful workloads on Kubernetes. You may not be ready to run your database there. But if your organization is exploring…
Automate MySQL Configuration with Ansible
Automate MySQL Configuration with Ansible Database configuration is one of those things that you can easily automate with Ansible. I discussed this in my presentation at PerconaLive 2021 on Practical…
3 Reasons to use Ansible over Custom Scripts
3 Reasons to use Ansible over Custom Scripts A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Practical Database Administration with Ansible at PerconaLive ONLINE 2021. I had some pretty…