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Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery explains what is driving the rise of sovereign database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platforms.

This blog provides several high-level tips for getting the most performance out of your PostgreSQL setups.

Galera Cluster comes with many cool features and advantages over traditional asynchronous replication, but these do not automatically translate into higher performance. In this blog post, we will look at what drives MySQL/MariaDB Galera performance, and s

Schema changes are not popular among database ops folks. They can be quite cumbersome in MySQL and MariaDB, and there are risks to the data as well as the availability of the database. This blog describes the different types of schema change operations yo

How does PostgreSQL manage memory, and how can we tune it? This blog provides an overview of memory management in PostgreSQL, the configuration parameters available, and tips on how to optimize them.

PostgreSQL I/O is quite reliable, stable and performant on pretty much any hardware, including cloud. In this blog, we detail steps you can take to tune the input and outputs of your PostgreSQL database.

pg_dump and pg_dumpall are popular tools used to backup PostgreSQL. This blog shows you how to use them, with some tips and tricks for ensuring you have a proper backup strategy.