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We’ve created a new space on our website for our flagship product Tungsten Clustering. This blog invites you to take a tour of the new product section and to get in touch with us for your MySQL MySQL High Availability, Disaster Recovery and/or Geo-Clustering needs.

Introducing our new website and its many new features and content elements: the home of Continuent - the MySQL Availability Company.

On Monday April 27th, MySQL released a much anticipated patch release 8.0.20. Along with many bug fixes and improvements, a new property was introduced - binlog-transaction-compression. During our own testing we have discovered an incompatibility with this property. Read on for more information.

An overview of a Tungsten topology that doesn’t get much attention: the Cluster-Slave, which is an easy way to get data resiliency and integration, with features that make it ideal for big data analytics, reporting, and backups.

How to build a multi-region, multi-master MySQL cloud database back- end capable of serving a global, high-volume cloud contact center: this global SaaS provider is a Cloud Contact Center solution provider, who needs to deliver up-to-date data to clients as quickly as possible.

Watch this 30min training video on how to get started with Tungsten Replicator AMI and how to avail of it on Amazon Marketplace; including a step-by-step demonstration.

This use case of a global SaaS provider looks at how our customer migrated from Amazon RDS to a truly global, geo-distributed multi-master Tungsten Clustering solution.

This MySQL high availability and disaster recovery use case is based on a customer of ours who is a government-regulated lottery service and who needs 24x7x365 operations as well as be able to perform maintenance without any disruption to their public facing gaming website.

Version 6+ of Tungsten Clustering comes with a host of improvements for your Multi-Site Multi-Master topology (MSMM); this is partly why it has a new name: Composite Master-Master (CMM). Probably the most notable improvement is that the Managers are more aware. What does that mean?

This use case blog discusses a Telco provider that specializes in roaming, i.e. complete connectivity solutions around the world. It is our third ‘multi-master MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL Use Case series.

Our colleague Chris Parker covers a few of the approaches he found that made the transition of working in an office to working from home easier for him (something that a lot of us experience at the moment). He also takes a look at the technical side and what we at Continuent use to conduct our day to day business and Keep the Lights on. Including a Great Bake Off!

The Tungsten Connector is an intelligent MySQL proxy that provides key high-availability and read-scaling features. This includes the ability to route MySQL queries by inspecting them in-flight.