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My DBA is Sick - Database Failover Tips for SysAdmins
The best scenario is that, in case of a database failure, you have a good Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) and a highly available environment with an automatic failover process, but… what happens if it...
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Setting up ClusterControl as a Bastion Host for your Database Servers
A bastion host is a gateway host between an inside network and an outside network. It is commonly used to access remote hosts sitting on a different network which has no direct connection between the...
View ArticleA Guide to Configuring a Load Balancer in a MongoDB Sharded Cluster
For any database, the load balancing of all the requests coming from clients is an important and fundamental mechanism to ensure scalability. A proper load balancing solution spreads all the client...
View ArticleRunning MongoDB with Ops Manager
Database administration goes beyond ensuring smooth operations to having historic performance that will offer some baselines for capacity planning, get real-time performance for load spikes, automating...
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Announcing ClusterControl 1.7.6: HA Stack Deployments in the Cloud with HAProxy
We’re excited to announce the 1.7.6 release of ClusterControl - the only database management system you’ll ever need to take control of your open source database infrastructure. This new edition...
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PostgreSQL Load Balancing in the Cloud Made Easy
We’d mentioned many times the advantages of using a Load Balancer in your database topology. It could be for redirecting traffic to healthy database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple...
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Managing Your Open Source Databases from Your iPad
With the current COVID-19 situation ongoing, plenty of people have started to work from home. Among those are people whose job is to manage database systems. The lockdowns which have been announced all...
View ArticleSysAdmin Working from Home? Tips to Automate MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres & MongoDB
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 - 16:00 to 16:30Are you an SysAdmin who is now responsible for your companies database operations? Then this is the webinar for you. Learn from a Senior DBA the basics you...
View ArticleTips for Managing MongoDB Remotely
Working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic means an increase in the importance of isolated infrastructures; more specifically ones that can only be accessed through an internal network, but in a way...
View ArticleMy Favorite PostgreSQL Extensions - Part One
This is in continuation of my previous blog entry wherein I had touched upon a topic of PostgreSQL Extensions. PostgreSQL Extensions are a plug and play set of enhancements that add an extra...
View ArticleTips for Reducing Production Database Infrastructure Costs
The database tier is one of the most important layers in a system architecture. It must be set up correctly from the beginning due to it being stateful, it is harder to scale as compared to other...
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Using SSH Tunneling as a VPN Alternative
Using a VPN connection is the most secure way to access a network if you are working remotely, but as this configuration could require hardware, time, and knowledge, you should probably want to know...
View ArticleAn Overview of MongoDB User Management
Database User Management is a particularly important part of data security, as we must understand who is accessing the database and set the access rights of each user. If a database does not have a...
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Tips for Managing PostgreSQL Remotely
A wide range of resources are available for you when managing your PostgreSQL database clusters remotely. With the right tools managing it remotely is not a difficult task. Using fully-managed services...
View ArticleMy Favorite PostgreSQL Extensions - Part Two
This is the second part of my blog “My Favorite PostgreSQL Extensions” wherein I had introduced you to two PostgreSQL extensions, postgres_fdw and pg_partman. In this part I will explore three...
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Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Alternatives - ClusterControl for PostgreSQL
Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL is a managed service for PostgreSQL available as part of Amazon Web Services. It comes with a handful of management functions that are intended to reduce the workload of...
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PGTune Alternatives - ClusterControl PostgreSQL Configuration
If you are new to PostgreSQL the most common challenge you face is about how to tune up your database environment. When PostgreSQL is installed it automatically produces a basic postgresql.conf file....
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pgDash Alternatives - PostgreSQL Database Monitoring with ClusterControl
Database monitoring and alerting is a particularly important part of database operations, as we must understand the current state of the database. If you don’t have good database monitoring in place,...
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MySQL Workbench Alternatives - ClusterControl Configuration Management
MySQL configuration management consists of two major components - MySQL configuration files and runtime configuration. Applying configuration changes on the runtime environment can be done through...
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NoSQL Data Streaming with MongoDB & Kafka
Developers describe Kafka as a "Distributed, fault-tolerant, high throughput, pub-sub, messaging system." Kafka is well-known as a partitioned, distributed, and replicated commit log service. It also...
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