Feb
14
2025
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Orchestrator (for Managing MySQL) High Availability Using Raft

Orchestrator (for Managing MySQL) High Availability Using RaftAs we know, Orchestrator is a MySQL high availability and replication management tool that aids in managing farms of MySQL servers. In this blog post, we discuss how to make the Orchestrator (which manages MySQL) itself fault-tolerant and highly available. When considering HA for the Orchestrator one of the popular choices will be using the Raft consensus. […]

Feb
13
2025
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Sizing the Replication Backlog Buffer for Valkey

Sizing the Replication Backlog Buffer for ValkeyData consistency and availability across distributed systems is crucial, particularly in environments that rely heavily on replication. In Valkey, one critical aspect of this replication process is the replication backlog size. This configuration parameter is vital in managing how much data can be temporarily stored to accommodate replicas that may fall behind the master node. […]

Feb
11
2025
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Security Advisory: CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM)

CVE Affecting Percona Monitoring and ManagementA critical security vulnerability has been identified in the following software that Percona has made available: PMM Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) installations, version 2.38 and above. This vulnerability does not extend to Docker or Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifier for this issue has been requested from mitre.org. Immediate actions […]

Feb
10
2025
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Talking Drupal #488 – Drupal Open University

Today we are talking about The open university initiative, Drupal in academia, and Fostering Drupal Education with guest Jean-Paul Vosmeer. We’ll also cover Artisan as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/488

Topics

  • What is the Drupal Open University Initiative
  • How did this initiative start
  • Why is it important to get Drupal into Universities and Classrooms
  • What stage is the initiative at
  • Is Drupal currently in any universities
  • Is it better to approach schools or professors directly
  • How is the curriculum being developed
  • What are the main differences between this initiative and resources like Drupalize.me, Drupal at your fingertips, or Drupal TB
  • What is next on the roadmap
  • Where does Drupal CMS fit in
  • Where does the initiative need help
  • How can someone get involved

Resources

Guests

Jean-Paul Vosmeer – reactonline.nl jpvos

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Avi Schwab – froboy.org froboy

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to use the Drupal UI to configure numerous aspects of your Drupal site’s look and feel? There’s a theme for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Sep 2024 by alejandro cabarcos though recent releases are by crzdev, both of metadrop
    • Versions available: 1.3.8, which support Drupal 10 and 11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained, release in the last week
    • Security coverage
    • Documentation: no, but a lengthy README that includes developer notes
    • Number of open issues: 7 open issues, 5 of which are bugs, but 3 are postponed
  • Usage stats:
    • 170 sites
  • Module features and usage
    • After installing the theme, there is a drush command to generate a subtheme, or you can manually duplicate an included starterkit. You also need to run a couple of npm commands to pull in all the front end libraries, and build the CSS files
    • Once you set the subtheme as your site default, you can customize a variety of ways the site looks, including the fonts and weights to use for heading and default text, the colour and padding of various elements, border weights, border radius, and more.
    • The customizations are grouped into tabs. The base tab includes a colour palette, base font, and link styling. Additional tabs include page layout, header, responsive, and footer, also breadcrumb, headings, display headings, buttons, forms, and components
    • Artisan also provides a toggle to expose extra customization options for dark mode, so if you want your site to give users the option to switch back and forth between normal and dark, this is extremely powerful, but does make for some very long configuration pages
    • You can create and save presets, for easy creation of reusable palettes
    • There is also a companion Artisan Styleguide module that provides a page that previews the theme style applied to an extensive list of elements
    • Last year I was considering making a more configurable subtheme of Olivero for the Event Platform initiative, so I was excited to read about Artisan in a metadrop blog post we’ll include in the show notes
Feb
07
2025
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Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on Kubernetes

Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on KubernetesThe upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. Since pg_tde comes pre-installed in Percona’s official PostgreSQL 17 images, this release presents an excellent opportunity to implement Transparent Data Encryption in your Kubernetes-deployed databases. Let’s look at how to configure and use pg_tde with […]

Feb
04
2025
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MongoDB 8.0 Performance; Does It Live Up to the Hype?

MongoDB 8.0 Performance Does It Live Up to the Hype?Percona Server for MongoDB 8.0 has been available for over a month now. We covered the most important new MongoDB features in a previous blog post.  Earlier versions of MongoDB have a history of becoming slower with every major release, which is common with most databases. As more features are added, the code paths get […]

Feb
03
2025
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Talking Drupal #487 – Single Directory Components Workflow

Today we are talking about Single Directory Components, How best to work with them, and their future with Drupal with guest Brian Perry. We’ll also cover Embedded Content as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/487

Topics

  • What are Single Directory Components (SDC)
  • Why the switch to SDCs
  • What is there in common between decoupled and SDCs
  • Can you give us an overview of your workflow
  • Common pitfalls
  • How should someone get started working with SDCs
  • Does it work with Paragraphs and Blocks?
  • Does it need to be all at once
  • How do you think SDCs will evolve
  • Do you see this leading to more Decoupled front ends
  • What contrib modules make working with SDCs easier

Resources

Guests

Brian Perry – brianperry.dev brianperry

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston – scott-weston

MOTW Correspondent

Jacob Rockowitz – jrockowitz.com jrockowitz

  • Embedded Content
  • Brief description:
    • The Embedded Content module allows site builders to select, create, and update content embedded within HTML inside CKEditor.
    • For developers, the EmbeddedContent plugin is like a Block plugin without context.
    • There is a demo on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOn-P3Q5Gg
    • There is support embedding of single directory component in progress. Conceptually, this is already possible, the same way one would render a single directory component in Block plugin.
  • Brief history
    • The concept and code started as the CKEditor5 Embedded Content module, created in August 2022.
    • In October 2023, CKEditor5 Embedded Content was renamed to Embedded Content.
  • Versions available:
    • 2.0.3 – January 22nd, 2025
    • Works with Drupal: ^9 ^10 ^11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained? yes
    • Security coverage? Yes
    • Test coverage? Yes
    • Documentation? Video and an example module
  • Number of open issues:
    • All issues: 6 open, 17 total
    • Bug report: 6 open, 15 total
  • Usage stats:
    • 509 sites report using this module
    • 1,263 sites report using this module (using old version)
  • Maintainer(s):
  • Module features and usage
    • Insert themed content in Ckeditor5 using Drupal plugins without having to write rich HTML and CSS
    • Render these results directly in the CKEditor
    • Create ‘inline’ embedded content that sits inline with the text, like footnotes.
    • Provides
    • Embedded Content plugin
    • CKeditor 5 plugin.
    • Ecosystem
    • Embedded Content: Examples for examples of how to build your own plugins.
    • Embedded Content: Entity for embedding content entities
    • Embedded Content: SDC for single directory components (under development)
    • Potential Challenges
    • Example of the embedded content tag.
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    • Translations via TMS (data is serialized via an attribute)
Jan
27
2025
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Talking Drupal #486 – GraphQL & Drupal Decoupled

Today we are talking about GraphQL, Drupal Decoupled, and What to do with them with guest Jesus Manuel Olivas. We’ll also cover CORS UI as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/486

Topics

  • What is GraphQL
  • How do you use GraphQL with Drupal
  • Would you use GraphQL without a headless theme
  • Do you need additional server requirements
  • What are some of your favorite GraphQL modules
  • What caused the change from v3 to v4
  • What is meant by Drupal Decoupled
  • What are the best use cases
  • How do you handle caching and performance
  • How do you handle roles and permissions
  • Do you think AI has made decoupled more interesting

Resources

Guests

Jesus Manuel Olivas – drupal-decoupled.octahedroid.com jmolivas

Hosts

Nic Laflin – nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi – epam.com johnpicozzi Scott Weston – scott-weston

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz – mandclu.com mandclu

  • Brief description:
    • Have you ever wanted to control your site’s Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (aka CORS) configuration, directly within the Drupal admin UI? There’s a module for that.
  • Module name/project name:
  • Brief history
    • How old: created in Sep 2016 by Sam Becker (sam152), a prolific module maintainer in his own right, though the most recent release is by Matt Glaman, who has been on this show and will need no introduction for many of our listeners
    • Versions available: 8.x-1.2 which supports Drupal 9, 10, and 11
  • Maintainership
    • Actively maintained
    • Security coverage
    • Number of open issues: 2 open issues, 1 of which is a bug, and also has a patch available
  • Usage stats:
  • Module features and usage
    • By default cross-origin requests to Drupal applications will be denied. Since Drupal 8.2 you can add a section to your site’s services.yml file to enable responses, and specify what headers, methods, and origins should be supported
    • This module provides a form within Drupal to control these values. This could be helpful if, for example, these values need to change on a frequent basis, or for less technical users who are experimenting with a headless architecture.
    • I should note that the bug mentioned earlier throws a fatal error in PHP 8, but is a simple fix. So if you want to try out this module, make sure you apply the patch.
Jan
22
2025
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Using Blue/Green Deployment For (near) Zero-Downtime Primary Key Updates in RDS MySQL

Blue Green Deployment RDS MySQLLarge tables can pose challenges for many operations when working with a database. Occasionally, we may need to modify the table definition. Since RDS replication does not use asynchronous for its replication, the typical switchover procedure is not feasible. However, the Blue/Green feature of RDS utilizes asynchronous replication, which allows us to update the table […]

Jan
21
2025
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Navigating MongoDB Licensing Challenges: Why Percona is a Game-Changer

MongoDB has long been a favorite in the database community and is renowned for its flexibility and performance as a NoSQL solution. However, MongoDB Inc. chose to close-source the code of its Enterprise Advanced Server and, on top of that, reduced the value of the MongoDB Community Edition by no longer adding enterprise-grade features to […]

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