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."

Recent stories

Working with Ansible, PostgreSQL and Docker

While working on creating some of our internal training labs for PostgreSQL, I have had the pleasure of working with ...

by Kevin Markwardt

6 min read

Google Cloud Platform

Comparing Pgpool-II and PgBouncer

While I was in the process of determining different HA solutions for PostgreSQL, Pgpool and PgBouncer both came into ...

by Kevin Markwardt

9 min read

Technical Track

How to Set Up REPMGR with WITNESS for PostgreSQL 10

This blog post will go over how to set up and implement repmgr which is the PostgreSQL application to manage ...

by Kevin Markwardt

9 min read

More stories

How to Test MySQL Server Hostname with ProxySQL Multiplexing

Technical Track

How to manage multiple MySQL binary installations with SYSTEMD

MySQL

MySQL streaming Xtrabackup to slave recovery

MySQL

MySQL log rotation

Technical Track

Ansible and AWS automation

Technical Track

Creating an external slave for a live AWS Aurora Instance

MySQL

MySQL encrypted streaming backups directly into AWS S3

SQL Server

In depth: MySQL 5.6+ DDL