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....
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Jan 13, 2026 | Databases, KnowledgeBase
If you’re a DBA who has spent years with MySQL or PostgreSQL, trying out a new database usually brings mixed feelings. Curiosity, yes — but also hesitation. I went through the same phase with TiDB. Before installing it, the questions in my mind were very simple: Is...
by revathisreem | Dec 23, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
Data consistency in MongoDB often looks simple—until a failover happens during peak traffic, dashboards disagree with backend state, or “successful” writes quietly disappear. Most teams don’t hit these problems in development. They hit them in production, under...
by revathisreem | Nov 25, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MongoDB
There’s something that always surprises me about MongoDB performance tuning:No matter how many clusters we help, no matter the industry — fintech, gaming, e-commerce, IoT — the same mistakes creep in again and again. And the funny thing is, they rarely come from...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Nov 18, 2025 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
Migrating between MySQL and MariaDB used to be described as a “drop-in replacement.”But any DBA who has managed real production workloads knows that this is no longer true—especially with the modern community versions MySQL 8.4 LTS and MariaDB 11.4 LTS. It’s a common...
