by revathisreem | Mar 17, 2026 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase
Database outages in production environments rarely occur because the database engine itself fails. In most cases, outages happen due to operational risks such as schema changes on large tables, sudden connection spikes, replication lag, or accidental data...
by Karthickraja durairaj | Mar 10, 2026 | Automation, Databases, General
Introduction Modern organizations are increasingly adopting container platforms to run their applications and backend services. One such platform is Red Hat OpenShift, which is built on top of the open-source container orchestration system Kubernetes. While the...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Mar 3, 2026 | Databases, MongoDB
If you’ve ever had someone say, “The query is slow, just add an index,” this post is for you.In my recent MongoDB indexing session, we didn’t talk about syntax or fancy commands. We talked about something more uncomfortable and more important: what an index does to...
by revathisreem | Feb 17, 2026 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
If you’ve worked with MongoDB long enough, you’ve probably used TTL indexes at least once. And if you’ve worked in production long enough, you’ve probably seen them surprise someone. TTL (Time-To-Live) indexes are one of those features that look simple: “Create an...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Feb 10, 2026 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Many teams face this frustrating cycle: MySQL is slow → DBA tunes it → performance improves →A few weeks later → MySQL is slow again. If you are a DBA or developer, this situation probably feels very familiar. The biggest misunderstanding is this:MySQL performance...
by revathisreem | Jan 20, 2026 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
If you have run MongoDB in production long enough, you learn a hard truth: Data loss is not hypothetical. It is inevitable. It does not matter whether you operate on-prod or in the cloud, self-managed or Atlas. Disks fail. Regions go dark. Automation scripts misfire....
