django_postgres

How to Change Your Django Database to PostgreSQL

For most people, when developing a Django web application, they use the default SQLite3 database. SQLite3 allows you to quickly get started coding without complexities. However when its time to…

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Installing a database cluster using Galera Cluster with MariaDB

Galera Cluster robust database cluster made on top of MariaDB or MySQL. It contains several features that make it more reliable that standard MySQL Replication. It is a battle-tested solution…

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How I resolved MySQL restart errors after ‘Upgrade’ in Kubernetes

Upgrading a database has always been a slippery slope. Personally, once I set up a database, I will never upgrade it unless a for security reasons – which I have…

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How to Install MySQL 8.0 on Ubuntu 22.04

MySQL 8.0 comes with a load of new features and bug fixes. In this guide we will learn how to install MySQL 8.0 on an Ubuntu 22.04 server. Prerequisites Server…

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How to Create a Highly Available Database Cluster

Downtime can be very expensive and frustrates users. A sure way to prevent downtime is building a cluster for everything in your environment. Ensuring redundancy of various parts of your…

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Use Case: Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling with Nginx

When deploying high traffic sites/web apps, often times you’ll be faced with a dilemma on whether to use horizontal scaling or vertical scaling. Horizontal scaling is the use of several…

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How to Disable MySQL Strict Mode on Centos 7

Strict Mode in MySQL controls how MySQL handles invalid or missing values in statements such as INSERT and UPDATE. If strict mode is not in effect, MySQL inserts adjusted values…

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How to remove MySQL from your CentOS system

When doing an installation of a specific version of MySQL on your CentOS machine, you may get errors caused by the previous MySQL that had been installed earlier; probably a…

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How to create a Database Server using MariaDB on Centos 7

In our project, the database server will run on MariaDB Prerequisites A VPS with Centos 7 installed Root access to the VPS What do we want? We intend to setup…

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