Minto Joseph explains how to run logstash in Amazon EC2 Container Service.

If you are thinking in moving your MySQL databases to AWS, this analysis by Gabriel Ciciliani may help you determine if RDS is the appropriate solution for your data.

Overview On this post I will explain how to do an in-place migration to Tungsten. We will start with a MySQL topology consisting of 3 nodes (1 master, 2 slaves) using native MySQL replication, and convert that into a 3…

Find out the detailed steps to set up a monitoring framework to monitor Cassandra cluster metrics through Zabbix.

Discover the alternatives for performing schema changes in a Tungsten environment, which uses Tungsten replicator/cluster instead of traditional MySQL replication.

In the spirit of OTN Appreciation Day, Bjoern Rost, Principal Consultant at Pythian, talks about his favourite favourite Oracle feature: public-yum.

Ivan Groenewold, MySQL Database Consultant at Pythian, discusses auditing MySQL users with the McAffee plugin.

Kevin Pedersen, Team Manager, Service Reliability Engineering at Pythian, provides some considerations to keep your Terraform environment manageable.

I recently had the opportunity to test out Ansible’s ability to interact with docker containers. Some might ask why we would want Ansible to connect to running containers. Afterall, we can build the containers to our liking using ansible-container, or…

Gabriel Ciciliani, MySQL Lead Database Consultant at Pythian, explains how to generate custom MySQL statistics using collectd.