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This blog provides basic information about business-critical application to database connections; my team focuses on MySQL, MariaDB, and Percona Server for MySQL on Linux/Unix that’s infrastructure-agnostic (on-prem, VM, hybrid-cloud, cloud, multi-cloud, etc.).

Now available on demand: Watch the Continuent Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series for 2020 with Eero Teerikorpi, Founder & CEO of Continuent.

Watch the replay of this Zero Downtime MySQL use case webinar with Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi and find out how Kentucky Lottery achieved continuous MySQL operations with high availability, data protection, and disaster recovery using a Composite Active/Passive Tungsten Clustering Topology.

Join the replay of this webinar which discusses the use of geo-distributed active/active MySQL clusters for Telco providers, and on how to cost-effectively provide worldwide mobile roaming access with cloud-based Tungsten MySQL clusters.

This month we’re celebrating our 4th - or is it our 20th? - anniversary: read about our history and where we are today on the path to more years of MySQL availability and continuous operations.

Find out why and how we replaced an AWS RDS/MySQL solution with a Tungsten Cluster composite active/active MySQL solution to offer a geo-distributed MySQL back-end for IoT services at Samsung.

Get a better MySQL HA/DR solution at a lower cost - Tungsten Cluster - the value is compelling: Introducing the Tungsten Cluster Competitive Upgrade Program!

Learn how and where the Connector communicates, and about the different SSL configurations possible.

Watch the replay of this webinar about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters.

View this presentation to learn about two types of (MySQL) database proxies, which we refer to as ‘fast & simple proxy’ and ‘intelligent proxy’; and how transparent failover and read-write splitting works for these.

Watch this on-demand webinar tutorial to learn all about our new Tungsten Cluster (AMI) for MySQL HA, DR & geo-clustering, including a demonstration on how to use it. Learn about clustering architecture, and the different possible topologies.

You can now watch the replay of our High Volume MySQL HA Use Case Webinar: SaaS Continuous Operations with Terabytes of Data; and learn how to guarantee continuous operations for a SaaS provider with billions of daily transaction and terabytes of data with Tungsten MySQL Clusters.