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 title: "TacitSoft"
 link: "https://tacitsoft.dev/"
-description: "A Phoenix-based enterprise engineering consultancy for platform architecture and modernization, OS image lifecycle, and managed platform reliability — and the publisher of DB Daily, a source-linked daily digest of database news that includes MySQL and MariaDB sources."
+description: "The company behind MySQL For Free — a database engineering and operations practice for growing software teams, covering database health assessments, query and schema optimization, backup and recovery verification, MySQL and MariaDB migration readiness, high availability, security hardening, and incident intervention."
 subcategories:
   - Consulting
-  - Cloud & Kubernetes
+  - Migration Services
   - Managed Services
 countries:
   - Global
+compatibility:
+  - MySQL
+  - MariaDB
 images:
   - logo.png
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-TacitSoft LLC is an enterprise consultancy based in Phoenix, Arizona, that describes its mission as making critical platforms easier to change and safer to run. It organizes its work into three services: platform architecture and modernization, image and OS lifecycle (secure, reproducible operating-system images across hybrid environments), and managed platform reliability and delivery. Engagements follow an assess, engineer, and govern model, and the company offers a free initial assessment report before any paid work is proposed.
+MySQL For Free is TacitSoft's database engineering and operations practice for growing software teams. It helps when slow queries, scaling limits, replication problems, risky migrations, unreliable backups, or database incidents begin affecting customers and delivery.
 
-TacitSoft's services are not specific to MySQL or any other database; its listed focus is cloud, Kubernetes, delivery, and OS-image engineering. It also publishes free, locally run diagnostic collectors — including a Kubernetes resource audit and a Linux compliance preflight — and package repositories for its tools.
+Its work includes database health and risk assessments, query and schema optimization, backup and recovery verification, MySQL and MariaDB migration readiness, high availability, security hardening, cloud database architecture, incident intervention, and fractional principal database engineering. It supports MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Percona, and cloud-managed database platforms, along with the Linux, cloud, observability, and delivery systems around them.
 
-For the database community, TacitSoft publishes [DB Daily](https://tacitsoft.dev/db-daily), a daily digest of source-linked database stories with an RSS feed. It draws on sources across engines, including Planet for the MySQL Community, and links each story to the original post.
+The community began as mysqlforfree.com in 2009 and is now operated by TacitSoft LLC, based in Phoenix, Arizona. The knowledge remains open; professional engineering engagements are delivered through TacitSoft. It is an independent community, not affiliated with or endorsed by Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, or Percona.
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+TacitSoft also publishes [DB Daily](https://tacitsoft.dev/db-daily), a daily digest of source-linked database stories with an RSS feed, and offers wider platform services beyond databases: architecture and modernization, OS image lifecycle, and managed platform reliability.