Cloud Computing
Announcing InstanceHunt
InstanceHunt identifies the instance (families/types/classes) available for a cloud service across all the regions of that cloud. The initial version is a working example of several AWS database services. Future releases will enable advanced filtering and will cover other service categories (e.
Read moreA QLDB Cheat Sheet for MySQL Users
The AWS ledger database (QLDB) is an auditors best friend and lives up to the stated description of “Amazon QLDB can be used to track each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time.
Read moreUnderstanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities
The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the High Availability (HA) capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ. In this presentation I discuss the different capabilities and HA configurations with RDS Aurora including:
Read moreUpcoming Percona Live 2021 Presentations
I am pleased to have been selected to present at Percona Live 2021 May 12-13. My presentations include talks on AWS RDS Aurora and QLDB managed services. Understanding AWS RDS Aurora Capabilities The RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL capabilities of AWS extend the HA capabilities of RDS read replicas and Multi-AZ.
Read more#WDILTW – AWS RDS Proxy
This week I was evaluating AWS RDS Proxy . If you are familiar with the Relational Database Service (RDS) and use MySQL or Postgres, this is an additional option to consider.
Read moreEnforcing a least privileged security model can be hard
In a greenfield environment you generally have the luxury to right any wrongs of any past tech debt. It can be more difficult to apply this to an existing environment? For example, my setup is configured to just work with the AWS CLI and various litmus tests to validate that.
Read moreIntroducing the MySQL Cloud Service
The MySQL keynote at Oracle Open World 2016 announced the immediate availability of the MySQL Cloud Service, part of the larger Oracle Cloud offering. You can evaluate this now with a trial copy at cloud.
Read moreUtilizing OpenStack Trove DBaaS for deployment management
Trove is used for self service provisioning and lifecycle management for relational and non-relational databases in an OpenStack cloud. Trove provides a RESTful API interface that is same regardless of the type of database.
Read moreUnderstanding the DBaaS capability for your organization
As your organization transforms to embrace the wealth of digital information that is becoming available, the capability to store, manage and consume this data in any given format or product becomes an increasing burden for operations.
Read moreDigital transformation strategies
“The cosmos is complex, the cloud does not have to be”. This quote by Ben Amaba , Worldwide Executive at IBM Cloud, early in his presentation at the Performance without Limits 3.
Read moreUnderstanding the Oslo Libraries
Underpinning all of the OpenStack projects including Nova, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Horizon, Heat, Trove, Murano and others is a set of core common libraries that provide a consistent, highly tested and compatible feature set.
Read moreare you running KVM or QEMU launched instances?
A recent operators mailing list thread asked this question regarding the OpenStack user survey results of April 2016 (See page 39). As I verified my own local multi-node devstack dedicated H/W environment with varying commands, I initially came across the following error (which later was found to be misleading).
Read moreUsing your devstack cloud
You have setup and installed devstack . Now what! The Horizon UI will allow you to administer your running cloud from a web interface. We are not going to discuss the web UI in this post.
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