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Blog posts tagged
"MySQL"

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
18 August 2023

How to secure your database

Data Platform Article

Cybersecurity threats are increasing in volume, complexity and impact. Yet, organisations struggle to counter these growing threats. Cyber attacks often intend to steal, damage, hijack or alter value-generating data. In this article around database security, we use the NIST framework to lay out the common controls that you can implement t ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
18 July 2023

MySQL high availability made charmingly easy

Charms Article

In a previous blog, we talked about patterns to run a database in a highly available manner.  In this blog, we present our recipe for MySQL high availability. We will also explain how our solution interacts with K8s objects to provide some of its features. Why use MySQL MySQL is the most popular open-source database ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
14 September 2022

Should you use open-source databases?

Charms Article

You are not the only one asking this seemingly popular question! Several companies are torn between the rise in appeal of open-source databases and the undeniable challenges inherent to their adoption. Let’s explore the trends, the drivers and the challenges related to open-source database adoption. The popularity of open-source databases ...

Mohamed Wadie Nsiri
2 August 2022

Patterns to achieve database High Availability

Cloud and server Article

The cost of database downtime A study from ManageForce estimated the cost of a database outage to be an average of $474,000 per hour. Long database outages are the result of poor design concerning high availability. With the exponential growth of data that is generated over the internet (which is expected to reach 180 zeta-bytes ...

Leia Ruffini
22 June 2021

Ubuntu in the wild – 22nd of June

Ubuntu Article

The Ubuntu in the wild blog post ropes in the latest highlights about Ubuntu and Canonical around the world on a bi-weekly basis. ...

James Donner
25 November 2015

#MadeWithJuju: Apache Analytics SQL

Cloud and server Article

With last week’s announcement of Autopilot GA, we’re making the installation of OpenStack easier than ever. But once you’ve deployed OpenStack using our Autopilot tool, what’s next? Have you considered Juju for Big Data? Canonical’s service modeling tool allows you to deploy cloud services in seconds. With Big Data on the rise, Juju is be ...

Mark Baker
13 May 2013

London OpenStack & MySQL Meetups May 23rd

Ubuntu Article

If you are interested in either OpenStack or MySQL (or both) then you need to know about 2 meetups running the evening of May 23rd in London. The London OpenStack meetup. This is the 3rd meeting to take place and promises to be a good one with 3 talks planned so far: * Software defined ...

Canonical
19 June 2008

MySQL is using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code

Ubuntu Article

Now this is exciting news: MySQL is now using Bazaar and Launchpad for their source code! Both the main MySQL server code and the code for many ancilliary projects have been converted to Bazaar, and are published on Launchpad. Bazaar is a distributed version control system that Just Works and adapts to the workflows you ...