Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

PostgreSQL Community released PostgreSQL 16 on September 14, 2023. In years past, we’ve released our Distribution for PostgreSQL a few months later. We wanted to improve in this regard and establish a new release baseline. Improving quality while maintaining the same resilience towards QA was something we aimed for. It looks like we succeeded, and I’m happy to announce that Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL 16 is now available!

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Availability Open Source Database Servers 115

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

I am wired to constantly ask “what’s next?” Sometimes, the answer is: “more of the same.” That came to mind when a friend raised a point about emerging technology’s fractal nature. Across one story arc, they said, we often see several structural evolutions —smaller-scale versions of that wider phenomenon. Cloud computing?

Hardware 101

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 101

Percona

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the world of data backup and security, physical backups play an extremely important role. Physical backup methods are faster than logical because they involve only file copying without conversion. This type of backup is suitable for large, important databases that need to be recovered quickly when problems occur. Physical backups are the backups that consist of raw copies of the directories and files that store database contents.

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