Happy  New Year

MinervaDB wishing you all a very happy and prosperous new year – 2020 ! When we talk to our customers (both existing and prospective) and other community stakeholders during the month January, We get to know their resolutions (specifically on Business and Database Infrastructure Operations) and every company is so very passionate to share their goals for  2020, They actually spend so much  energy is  articulating this very well, loud and clear so that the true spirit never get diluted. In this blog we would like share with you few interesting points which really can influence all of the readers (most of our expected audiences are geeks and technology business owners) too. This post is mostly about how our resolutions are very well aligned to our customers ambitions / goals, As we often say – We are not an yet another DBA outsourcing company, We are always an extended team of customers committed to building optimal, scalable, highly reliable, fault-tolerant and secured Database Infrastructure Operations, Our accomplishments totally depend on the customer success.

Growing older by another year –  Growth is awesome for every business

Every successful business build loyalty and customer satisfaction year-on-year, They solve more customer problems faster and scale the growth ( with much deeper technology commitments ) to create an impact, so the following are our customer goals for 2020:

• Every year the internet penetration rate is going higher (especially in the emerging markets) and that means the companies (majorly consumer internet properties) should scale performance for increased data volume and transactions, So where are they investing ? Please read the bullets below to know more:
  • More responsive observability and monitoring infrastructure – Proactive health-check and diagnostics  / forensics of Database Infrastructure Operations
  • Capacity Planning and Sizing cost efficiently, Spending more or less for new infrastructure is equally bad, The oversized  capacity planning / sizing is just a waste of money and when undersized, It will be a serious hit for both business and other respective stakeholders (customers, investors and definitely employees)
  • Database Systems cannot be the single-point-of-failures ! Yes, All our customers has this one common requirement: Database Systems should be high reliable / available, redundant and self-healing.
  • We are definitely going to generate more data in 2020 than what was accomplished on 2019, So we have now bigger performance challenges to address –  Database Systems Performance is the most valued enabler in Data Powered Commerce Platforms
• Technology Roadmap – Is it all going to cloud or bare-metal also expected ?
  • None of our 200 odd customers are on 100% cloud though we have majority of customers on bare-metal servers (for both strategic and law-of-the-land reasons)
  • More than 50% of  customers are now more serious than ever before  on data privacy and security, Interesting time ahead of us in MinervaDB as we always  love to get challenged technically.
  • More investments for automation and efficiency management – The database infrastructure is growing aggressively for most of our customers, This  means more data to manage for  us and we at MinervaDB love “DevOps. for Database Ops.” so enterprise-wide we  are automating from incident reporting to workflow operations.
  • Technology adoption strategy – Vendor neutral and independent, Our customers are so passionate about open source Database Systems, They are exploring equally now MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks and PostgreSQL
• Business Strategy – Customer Success and Employee Satisfaction
  • Customer Success:
    • High performance transaction performance to  process orders and complete transactions faster
    • Building systems for scale
    • Available 24*7*365 – Database Systems are available 99.999% for solving customer problems
    • Secured Database Infrastructure Operations – Data Privacy and Transaction Security
  • Employee Satisfaction:
    • Improve work-life balance – Investing to build scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant and reliable database infrastructure
    • Do not disturb your resident DBAs on vacation – Plan and subscribe MinervaDB Vacation DBA Services proactively
    • Learning and professional development program – Investing for competency development and improvement
    • Automation and tools  – Automating redundant & effort intensive tasks for cost efficiency and quality management

Twenty Reasons to engage with MinervaDB on 2020

1. MinervaDB launching PostgreSQL Consulting and Support from Q2 2020, Great value proposition for customers – Single vendor engagement for consulting and 24*7 support for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL
2. Vendor neutral and independent Open Source Database Technologies consulting and 24*7 support  provider – Consulting, Support and Remote DBA Services for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, PostgreSQL  and ClickHouse
3. MinervaDB for startups to large corporations – You can engage us for as-low-as 4 hours / month to 24*7*365, To know more please refer to MinervaDB Remote DBA subscription plans 
4. Build secured Database Infrastructure Operations with MinervaDB:
   • GDPR: General Data Protection Directive
   • PCI DSS: Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
   • HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
   • HITECH: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act
   • Data Protection Act: United Kingdom
   • SOX: Sarbanes Oxley
   • FERPA: Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
   • And many more
5. MinervaDB delivers 24*7 consultative support for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, PostgreSQL and ClickHouse
6. Emergency Support available 24*7 – Not a MinervaDB customer ? No problem, We can deliver 24*7 emergency support on MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL for you
7. Flexible pricing – Pay us only for the hours engaged
8. Consulting and professional services for MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL available both onsite and remote
9. Competitive pricing – We are an virtual corporation so we don’t charge the customers for our infrastructure cost, What you pay us goes purely for our unmatched technology team
10. Pay per incident option available – You need our support in just fixing a single incident ? No problem, We have that option available.
11. Big Data Analytics and Columnar Store expertise – MariaDB ColumnStore and ClickHouse
12. Automation and DevOps. for building WebScale Database Infrastructure Operations
13. We operate 24*7 – Our team operates from multiple locations worldwide so we are available 24*7
14. Transparent billing  – We publish our consulting (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-consulting/), support (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-support/) and remote DBA services (https://minervadb.com/index.php/mysql-remote-dba-services-by-minervadb/) rates in the website. YOU WILL NEVER EVER PAY EVEN A SINGLE DIME MORE THAN WHAT IS MENTIONED IN THIS WEBSITE FOR OUR SERVICES, There are no hidden charges in our contracts !
15. Full-stack DBA operations – We are experts in performance, scalability, high availability, disaster recovery, database security and database infrastructure upgrades / migrations. You can stop worrying about data and focus more on business
16. Customer centric and boot strapped – Our business is 100% customer centric and we earn only from consulting and remote DBA services so customer success is our primary goal. We are not yet another DBA outsourcing company rather an extended team of our customers committed to optimal, scalable and highly available database infrastructure operations
17. Web-scale DBA expertise – Our consultants have worked for several planet-scale internet properties and we know what it takes to build an optimal, scalable and highly available web-scale database infrastructure operations
18. Vacation DBA Service – We can support your database infrastructure operations when the resident DBA is on a holiday / vacation so you can guarantee an optimal work-life balance for your DBA
19. Flexible payment options – Wire, PayPal, Credit/Debit Card, Cheque and Cash
20. Transparent ticketing system – We share with you the detailed work report of what we have done for your database infrastructure, This also includes how you will get benefitted with change we have done. We love absolute transparency and detailed documentation

Conclusion

We are living on an Datanomy world, The data powers business and Database Infrastructure going unavailable will directly impact customers, employees and investors, We at MinervaDB is committed to building and delivering optimal, scalable, highly available,  fault-tolerant, reliable and secured database infrastructure operations for our customers globally. To know more on how MinervaDB creates value for your Database Infrastructure Operations, Please download our corporate flyer PDF here.

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Step 1 – Check existing logs and their size:

[root@localhost ~]# lsof -c mysqld | grep ib_logfile
mysqld  1018 mysql    5uW     REG              253,0  50331648   180228 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
mysqld  1018 mysql   11uW     REG              253,0  50331648   180229 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1

Step 2 – Shutdown MySQL

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl stop mysqld 
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status mysqld 
● mysqld.service - MySQL Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Sat 2018-05-12 16:33:51 IST; 5s ago
     Docs: man:mysqld(8)
           http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/using-systemd.html
  Process: 5848 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/mysqld $MYSQLD_OPTS (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 5831 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mysqld_pre_systemd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 5848 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Status: "SERVER_SHUTTING_DOWN"

May 12 16:33:43 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting MySQL Server...
May 12 16:33:44 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started MySQL Server.
May 12 16:33:49 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopping MySQL Server...
May 12 16:33:51 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped MySQL Server.
[root@localhost ~]# 

Step 3 – From reliability / safety perspective, We don’t recommend you remove the existing log files. You may need these files to restore database if anything goes wrong unfortunately

[root@localhost ~]# find /var/lib/mysql -type f -name "ib_logfile?" -exec mv {} {}_OLD \;
[root@localhost ~]# ls /var/lib/mysql
auto.cnf       ca-key.pem       db1              ib_logfile1_OLD     private_key.pem  sys
binlog.000008  ca.pem           ib_buffer_pool   mysql               public_key.pem   undo_001
binlog.000009  client-cert.pem  ibdata1          mysql.ibd           server-cert.pem  undo_002
binlog.index   client-key.pem   ib_logfile0_OLD  performance_schema  server-key.pem
[root@localhost ~]#

Step 4 –  Resize innodb_log_file_size system variable in my.cnf using you favorite editor of choice, In this post we have used 64M (which actually is a good value for many mid sized systems, bigger values are always a concern under some situations)

[root@localhost ~]# grep 'innodb_log_file_size' /etc/my.cnf
innodb_log_file_size=64M

Step 5 – Restart MySQL instance

[root@localhost ~]# systemctl start mysqld 
[root@localhost ~]# systemctl status mysqld 
● mysqld.service - MySQL Server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Sat 2018-05-12 16:44:30 IST; 7s ago
     Docs: man:mysqld(8)
           http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/en/using-systemd.html
  Process: 5938 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/mysqld_pre_systemd (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 5955 (mysqld)
   Status: "SERVER_OPERATING"
   CGroup: /system.slice/mysqld.service
           └─5955 /usr/sbin/mysqld

May 12 16:44:29 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting MySQL Server...
May 12 16:44:30 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started MySQL Server.

You have successfully resized InnoDB log files size  

[root@localhost ~]# lsof -c mysqld | grep ib_logfile
mysqld  5955 mysql   10uW     REG              253,0  67108864   180206 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile0
mysqld  5955 mysql   11uW     REG              253,0  67108864   180230 /var/lib/mysql/ib_logfile1
[root@localhost ~]# 

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What you can expect from subscribing to our Vacation DBA services ?

• Elite-class global team of DBA available for you 24*7.
• Database infrastructure operations performance monitoring 24*7.
• Vendor neutral and independent DBA services – MySQL, MariaDB, MyRocks and Percona Server.
• MySQL installation and configuration.
• MySQL performance benchmarking.
• MySQL capacity planning and sizing.
• MySQL performance optimization and tuning.
• SQL and Index optimization.
• Disk I/O optimization.
• MySQL troubleshooting.
• MySQL database recovery services.
• MySQL high availability solutions.
• MySQL upgrades.
• Emergency DBA support and On-call DBA services – When you need us, we are available on-call (24*7).

When customers usually subscribe for vacation DBA services  ?

• Resident DBA left the company and business needs DBA coverage till they hire new DBA.
• Resident DBA is on vacation – Companies guarantee great work-life balance to the team, It’s not professional calling DBA for support when he/she is on an vacation.
• Leverage with external DBA team for 24*7 MySQL support.
• You need a expert DBA coverage for an limited period.
• Your website traffic is very high (usually for holidays / new year etc.) and you need highly responsive 24*7 DBA support.

☛ Why our customers love working with us ?

• Global team – We have expert MySQL consultants operating 24*7*365 from multiple locations worldwide.
• Vendor neutral and independent – Experts in MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and ClickHouse.
• We are available on a short notice for emergency DBA support services.
• No long-term contract option available – You can hire us for as-low-as 40 hours.
• We bill you only for the hours worked, Discounts available for advanced booking (only for vacation DBA services).
• Performance benchmarking – We do stress testing of the system proactively to avoid incidents which can directly impact your business.
• Capacity planning and sizing – Not more nor less, We size your systems optimally and this include recommendations on CPU, memory, storage and network.
• Performance health check, diagnostics and forensics – We will be first the one to know your performance bottleneck and fix before it become ugly.
• Performance optimization and tuning – We do full-stack optimization which include Linux, MySQL and PHP also
• Disk I/O tuning – We are experts in designing optimal storage infrastructure architecture and disk I/O distribution.
• SQL tuning – We are experts in re-writing your SQL for performance, Indeed we often see the major performance improvements by just tuning expensive SQL.
• Designing optimal schema, indexes and SQL – Design and build optimal schema and SQL for performance and scalability.
• Partitioning and archiving solutions –  Building systems horizontally scalable for web-scale platforms.
• Scale-out and replication solutions We build horizontally scalable systems which are highly available too.
• Sharding and horizontal partitioning solutions – Building systems horizontally scalable and reliable across multiple-DC for web-scale platforms.
• Clustering solutions – Grow your MySQL infrastructure horizontally for performance, scalability and reliability.
• High Availability and SRE – Architecting and building highly available and reliable database infrastructure operations  for web-scale.
• Data recovery services – Building robust disaster recovery solutions, zero data loss systems and multi-location backup retention.
• Database upgrades and migration – Seamless upgrades and migration of database infrastructure on zero downtime.

☛ Technology focus – Vendor neutral and independent

☛ MinervaDB Remote DBA plans

☛ Customer testimonials

” Shiv is a expert in MySQL performance, He can fine tune MySQL performance at instance, application and infrastructure level in a shortest duration, I would love to hire him again “

David  Hutton
Head of IT operations
National Geographic

” If it’s about MySQL performance and scalability, I will first call Shiv and He has helped us several times in building optimal, scalable and highly available MySQL infrastructure operations “

Mark Gray
  IT Manager
Nike Technologies

” If you are building an highly reliable MySQL ecosystem, Hiring Shiv and his team will simplify your project. He is a guru to build an highly available and fault tolerant web property “ 

Kevin Thomson
Business Head – Media properties
AOL

” Shiv and his team built an custom MySQL high availability solution for us across data centers which enabled 24*7*365 availability of our business services. His Soultions are non vendor biased and cost efficient “

Keshav Patel
Group Manager – IT
Lastminute.com 

” Thinking about outsourcing your DBA function ? Shiv is the guy who you should be talking to, He can build an highly reliable 24*7 remote DBA team for an fraction of cost to hiring a Sr. level resident DBA “

Brian Lewis
Lead Systems Engineer
Priceline.com  

” The shortest emergency DBA support provider I have ever worked with, They are highly responsive and professional. If we suspect something going wrong with our database systems, The immediate action item is contact Shiv and his team”

Sherly Williams
Manager -Business Continuity
GAP Inc. 

” We have contracted MinervaDB for 24*7 remote DBA services, They delivered MySQL maximum reliability and availability solutions ahead of the project schedule using 100% open source and free tools, saving considerably our IT budget. “

Simon Matthew
IT Manager – Media & Entertainment
Vodafone PLC 

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