A commonly encountered scenario is when EBS volumes are not performing at the expected theoretical performance. Let’s look at some of the potential reasons for that and how we can “fix” it. (When I say EBS volume, I am talking about SSDs specifically. I rarely see HDDs in use anymore.)

Planning for success

First of all, keep in mind that theoretical IOPS are based on an IO size of 16KB. If you are doing 32KB operations and have a volume rated 1000 IOPS, it means you effectively have 500 IOPS available.

Instance type is closely related to IO performance. When working with databases, you want to use an EBS-optimized instance type. This ensures dedicated bandwidth is available to the IO layer. In addition to that, instance types have a cap on bandwidth and IOPS. So when picking your instance type, don’t base the …

Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.45-25.27 and 5.7.27-25.19 with a new Galera Replication library 3.28 (release notes, download) implementing wsrep API version 25. This release incorporates all changes into MySQL 5.6.45 (release notes, download) and MySQL 5.7.27 (release notes, …

Working as a support engineer here at Percona is amazing, as you get a variety of requests, ranging from the most trivial questions to questions that require source code review and understanding of the internals of InnoDB, for example.

In our world where High Availability is a must, everything is about being pro-active, and when we need to be reactive we must act fast. To do so we need to ensure we have proper monitoring in place that covers all possible failure scenarios. Unfortunately, that is not always possible and we are always improving and learning as we face new types of issues.

A few days ago one of our customers faced an issue where MySQL identified an InnoDB secondary index corruption and marked that table as corrupted instead of crashing the server. Even though one would think that a single table marked as …

Vitess has an opinionated approach to database scalability. Some of those opinions have minimal controversy such as how durability should be provided via replication, but the one I find interesting is the 250GB per MySQL server recommendation. Is this a physical MySQL Limit? # In short: no. By “physical limit” I mean is there a file format restriction that says databases can not be greater than 250GB? The physical limit for InnoDB is 64TB per tablespace, and in the default configuration each table is its own tablespace.

Laravel 6 is recently released with many enhancements, so we'll be learning, throughout this tutorial series how to create an example REST API CRUD application from scratch. The application we'll be building is a simple CRM with a MySQL database that exposes a set of RESTful API endpoints.

You can see this Upgrade Guide for instructions on how to upgrade an existing web application from Laravel 5.8 to Laravel 6.

Introducing REST APIs

According to Wikipedia:

Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style that defines a set of constraints to be used for creating Web services. Web services that conform to the REST architectural style, termed RESTful Web services (RWS), provide interoperability between computer systems on the Internet.

REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. It's an architectural style for distributed systems invented by Roy Fielding in 2000.

You …

Laravel 6 is the latest version of the most popular PHP framework for web development. It comes with a bunch of a new features and enhancements and will be the next LTS (Long Time Support) version instead of Laravel 5.5.

Laravel 6 is released on the date of September 3rd, 2019.

For v5.5, bug fixes will end on August 30th, 2019 but security updates will be made until August 30th, 2020.

This is a table from the official docs that displays the release dates and other important dates for the various versions of Laravel:

In this tutorial, we'll see the new features of Laravel 6, we'll learn how to generate a Laravel 6 project using Composer and how to build a CRM web application from scratch. We'll see how to configure a MySQL database for our app, create models, migrate our database and create controllers for exposing a REST API that will then be consumed from a Vue.js interface.

You'll also learn about the …

In this short blog post, we will check how to use linux-fincore to check which files are in the in-memory Linux page cache. To have an introductory read about the Linux page cache check here and here.

In summary, whenever you read from or write to a file (unless you are using Direct_IO to bypass the functionality), the result is cached in memory, so that subsequent requests can be served from it, instead of the orders of magnitude-slower disk subsystem (it can also be used to cache writes, before flushing them to disk). This is done as far as there is memory that is not being used by any process; whenever there is a shortage of otherwise free memory, the kernel will choose to first evict the page cache …

Why does the DIY approach fail to deliver vs. the Tungsten Clustering solution for geo-distributed MySQL multimaster deployments?

Before we dive into the 10 reasons, note why commercially-supported enterprise software is less risky and in fact less costly:

• The labor time spent building and maintaining a DIY solution costs more than a supported solution that just works.
• There is documentation, training, support, so your mission-critical process is never dependent upon an irreplaceable individual.

1. Tungsten Clustering is a complete solution, comprised of the Replicator, Manager and Connector components
   • With DIY, you must first decide the architecture, then select the individual tools to handle each layer of the topology. …

Mid September, MySQL Community, MySQL Customers and MySQL Engineers will be in San Francisco to share their experience and present the new features of your favorite database !

The event will be held in Moscone South (just Mirko Ortensi‘s Hands-on Lab will be delivered in Moscone West).

During the week, the MySQL Community Team will host the traditional MySQL Reception. We got so great feedback from last year that we decided to renew the experience in the same awesome location, the Samovar Tea Lounge at Yerba Buena Gardens. Don’t forget that you need to register for this reception but no OOW pass is required. Please register here !

Back to the conference, you can find the full schedule for the session in the …

ProxySQL Technology Day in Ghent, Belgium

As a part of the ProxySQL team I am happy to announce my trip to Ghent to ProxySQL Technology Day. With great pleasure, I will join the experts from Oracle, Percona, and Pythian to talk about various things that ProxySQL can do for a user. We are going to meet at 5PM at Ghent’s Co.Station co-working on Thursday, October 3rd to walk through key features that ProxySQL is adding to MySQL ecosystem. Join me and others for five talks and a round table about building MySQL infrastructure to serve hundreds of thousands of queries per second.

What am I going to talk about?

In my 30 minutes “Introduction to High …