Kevin Markwardt

Kevin Markwardt

"Kevin Markwardt has twenty years of system administration experience ranging from MySQL, Linux, Windows, and VMware. Over the last six years he has been dedicated to MySQL and Linux administration with a focus on scripting, automation, HA, and cloud solutions. Kevin has lead and assisted with many projects focusing on larger scale implementations of technologies, including ProxySQL, Orchestrator, Pacemaker, GCP, AWS RDS, and MySQL. Kevin Markwardt is a certified GCP Professional Cloud Architect, and a certified AWS Solutions Architect - Associate. Currently he is a Project Engineer at Pythian specializing in MySQL and large scale client projects. One of his new directives is Postgres and is currently supporting multiple internal production Postgres instances."

Posts by Kevin Markwardt

Working with Ansible, PostgreSQL and Docker

Working with Ansible, PostgreSQL and Docker

Sep 24, 2019 12:00:00 AM 6 min read
Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

Aug 7, 2019 12:00:00 AM 9 min read
How to Set Up REPMGR with WITNESS for PostgreSQL 10

How to Set Up REPMGR with WITNESS for PostgreSQL 10

Jul 30, 2019 10:11:00 AM 12 min read
How to Test MySQL Server Hostname with ProxySQL Multiplexing

How to Test MySQL Server Hostname with ProxySQL Multiplexing

Jul 24, 2019 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

Jul 30, 2018 12:00:00 AM 7 min read
MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

Jun 6, 2018 12:00:00 AM 8 min read
MySQL log rotation

MySQL log rotation

Mar 22, 2018 12:00:00 AM 3 min read
Ansible and AWS automation

Ansible and AWS automation

May 11, 2017 12:00:00 AM 7 min read
Creating an external slave for a live AWS Aurora Instance

Creating an external slave for a live AWS Aurora Instance

Jul 15, 2016 12:00:00 AM 4 min read
MySQL encrypted streaming backups directly into AWS S3

MySQL encrypted streaming backups directly into AWS S3

May 13, 2016 12:00:00 AM 8 min read
In depth: MySQL 5.6+ DDL

In depth: MySQL 5.6+ DDL

Mar 29, 2016 12:00:00 AM 8 min read