RDS performance issues by IOPS on GP SSD
We want to share with you a problem that we have recently solved with a project. RDS is the managed database service offered by AWS that solves the main management, operation and maintenance problems involved in having a relational database platform. With RDS everything is very simple, you guarantee the service and the operative allowing […]
GCP Cloud SQL – Recovering an accidentally deleted database
Introduction It all started with a simple message: “Hello Geko, we are receiving a DB connection timeout“. It took less than 2 minutes to discover what was going on: The database was deleted. Lots of facepalms after, the main task was to recover the data (and also the service). Fortunately, Google enforces the backup policies […]
Error using AWS EFS for MySQL
Introduction In this post we are going to see how to solve the following error that we face while working with MySQL databases using AWS EFS service for storage: ERROR 1030 (HY000) at line 1744: Got error 168 from storage engine Starting situation Our use case consisted of a Kubernetes EKS cluster, where we needed […]