by Karthickraja durairaj | Feb 3, 2026 | Automation, General, MySQL
Introduction A DBA’s honest story about production, pressure, and finally having guardrails If you’ve worked as a DBA in production for a few years, you’ll eventually learn a quiet truth that nobody really prepares you for: When things go wrong in the database,...
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...
by revathisreem | Aug 26, 2025 | Databases, General, KnowledgeBase, MySQL
If you’ve ever stared at a slow dashboard wondering why a query that should be instantaneous is chewing through seconds, you already know the truth: databases are fast when answers come from memory and slow when they come from disk. Caching is how we stack the odds in...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Aug 12, 2025 | KnowledgeBase, MySQL
As DBAs, we’re trained to think about performance, availability, and backups. But one thing that often gets overlooked — sometimes dangerously so — is encryption. In many teams, we leave it to the application developers or assume the cloud provider has it handled. But...
by revathisreem | Jul 22, 2025 | KnowledgeBase, MySQL
In today’s always-on digital world, businesses can’t afford database downtime — not even for a minute. This is where MySQL NDB Cluster steps in. While many developers are familiar with MySQL, fewer have explored the power of its NDB (Network Database) engine, a...
by Nagarajan Ponnusamy | Jul 1, 2025 | Databases, KnowledgeBase, linux, MySQL, Performance insights
Hi everyone! We all want our applications to be fast, responsive, and scalable. But often, we focus just on writing efficient queries and forget to look deeper at the actual engine that powers those queries. In this blog, we’re going to explore what truly drives...
