A few days ago Percona benchmarked our agents’ performance
overhead in two extreme deployment scenarios. We engaged Percona
to do this (on a paid basis) because of their sterling reputation
for independent, objective third-party evaluations.
Background
As you may know, I worked at Percona for nearly five years and
participated in many of these paid evaluations myself. There is
no one more highly qualified to evaluate a product’s performance
than Vadim Tkachenko at Percona. I know because I worked closely
with him to evaluate products including Clustrix and others.
Vadim and I corresponded and planned the evaluation over a series
of many months, and Vadim ran and re-ran benchmarks until we
agreed it met our mutual standards.
At this point Vadim wrote a blog post, which you can find linked
above. Prior to …
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