Articles by Shiv Iyer

About Shiv Iyer

Open Source Database Systems Engineer with a deep understanding of Optimizer Internals, Performance Engineering, Scalability and Data SRE. Shiv currently is the Founder, Investor, Board Member and CEO of multiple Database Systems Infrastructure Operations companies in the Transaction Processing Computing and ColumnStores ecosystem. He is also a frequent speaker in open source software conferences globally.

Hows do locks and buffer pool pins work in MySQL

Hows do locks and buffer pool pins work in MySQL? In MySQL, locks and pins are used to control concurrent access to data in the buffer pool, which is a memory area used to cache […]

Understanding Latches in MySQL

Understanding Latches in MySQL In MySQL, latches are used to protect shared data structures and ensure consistency in the database. They are used by the storage engine to synchronize access to shared resources such as […]

Troubleshooting Fatal Background Processes in MySQL

Troubleshooting Fatal Background Processes in MySQL In MySQL, a “fatal background process” refers to a background process that has failed and is no longer able to function. This can happen due to a variety of […]

Kafka Education Series: Kafka Internals

Kafka Education Series: Kafka Internals Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that allows you to collect, store, and process large streams of data in real-time. It is designed to handle high throughput, low latency, and […]

What is a parse call in MySQL?

What is a parse call in MySQL? In MySQL, a parse call refers to the process of analyzing a SQL statement and preparing it for execution. When a client sends a SQL statement to the […]

Step-by-step PostgreSQL 15 multi-master Replication for High Availability

Step-by-step PostgreSQL 15 multi-master Replication for High Availability Here is a general step-by-step guide for setting up multi-master replication in PostgreSQL 15 for high availability: Step 1: Prepare the master nodes: Make sure that the […]

How Least Recently Used (LRU) list is managed in PostgreSQL?

How Least Recently Used (LRU) list is managed in PostgreSQL? In PostgreSQL, the least recently used (LRU) list is a mechanism used to manage the buffer cache. The buffer cache is a memory area used […]

How PostgreSQL Vacuum works?

How does PostgreSQL Vacuum work? In PostgreSQL, the vacuum process is responsible for reclaiming space from deleted or updated rows in tables. The vacuum process works by scanning the table and removing any rows that […]

Troubleshooting MySQL Locks and Wait Events Performance – MinervaDB DBA Series

Troubleshooting MySQL Locks and Wait Events Performance – MinervaDB MySQL DBA Tricks and Techniques Series Overview Relational Database Management Systems are built to manage ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolated and Durable) complaint Database Infrastructure for Real-Time […]

Troubleshooting MySQL Thread Performance

Troubleshooting MySQL Thread Performance – MySQL DBA Scripts Series(Tricks and Techniques) Overview This post is about how we can troubleshoot MySQL Thread performance intuitively. Several folks have asked me by now about how I do […]