May 20, 2013

Automation: A case for synchronous replication

Just yesterday I wrote about math of automatic failover today I’ll share my thoughts about what makes MySQL failover different from many other components and why asynchronous nature of standard replication solution is causing problems with it. Lets first think about properties of simple components we fail over – web servers, application servers etc. We [...]

The Math of Automated Failover

There are number of people recently blogging about MySQL automated failover, based on production incident which GitHub disclosed. Here is my take on it. When we look at systems providing high availability we can identify 2 cases of system breaking down. First is when the system itself has a bug or limitations which does not [...]

Great Talks on Percona Live,NY!, Free Pass opportunity inside

You surely have heard about Percona Live,NY taking place October 1-2 in New York, you however might have been wondering what kind of talks you would see on this event and why would should you attend. The day one of this event is Tutorial day, which is long (half to a full day) presentations which [...]

Announcing Percona Live MySQL London

Looking for a great opportunity to share your MySQL knowledge with the MySQL community? Here is your chance. Percona is happy to announce that the dates of the Percona Live MySQL London Conference have been set for Dec. 3-4, 2012. Call for speakers is underway and will be open until August 17th, 2012. The conference [...]

Comparing Percona XtraDB Cluster with Semi-Sync replication Cross-WAN

I have a customer who is considering Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a two colo WAN environment.  They wanted me to do a test comparing PXC against semi-synchronous replication to see how they stack up against each other. Test Environment The test environment included AWS EC2 nodes in US-East and US-West (Oregon).  The ping RTT latency [...]

Testing Percona Replication Manager (prm) with Vagrant

If you have recently attended some Percona Live events or if you have checked some slides from Yves Trudeau, you may have heard about Percona Replication Manager (PRM), a new high availability tool for MySQL. Percona Live DC 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2012   PRM is an OCF Resource Agent for Corosync [...]

Announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 GA release

I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20. With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing [...]

Percona XtraDB Cluster Events

We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012. We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.

Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.20 – Beta release

I am happy to announce the availability of beta release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster. Percona XtraDB Cluster is High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and the beta release is based on Percona Server 5.5.20 and the recently released Galera 2.0 GA The main focus in this release: Incremental State Transfer, [...]

Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 2: Multi-Master replication

This is about the second great feature – Multi-Master replication, what you get with Percona XtraDB Cluster. It is recommended you get familiar with general architecture of the cluster, described on the previous post. By Multi-Master I mean the ability to write to any node in your cluster and do not worry that eventually you [...]