
My colleague Miguel wrote about ways to audit login attempts in MySQL over 13 years ago, and this is still a relevant subject. I decided to refresh this topic to include some important changes since then. Very often, it is important to…


Lakehouse architectures enable multiple engines to operate on shared data using open table formats such as Apache Iceberg. However, differences in SQL identifier resolution and catalog naming rules create interoperability failures. This…
Jepsen’s analysis of MySQL 8.0.34 walked through a set of concurrency and isolation anomalies in InnoDB. MariaDB, which inherits the same codebase, took the report seriously and shipped a response: a new server variable called…
New Brand. Same Independence. If you read today’s announcement, you know Percona has a lot to say about what’s broken in modern data infrastructure. Lock-in dressed up as openness. Costs that climb while control shrinks. Vendors who made…