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Our team of MySQL database experts regularly blogs on topics that range from MySQL availability, MySQL replication, multi-master MySQL, and MySQL-aware proxies, all the way through to ‘how to’ content for our solutions: Tungsten Clustering, Tungsten Replicator and Tungsten Proxy.

Monitoring and Managing MySQL Clusters Without Downtime

For organizations running mission-critical MySQL clusters, even brief service interruptions can translate to significant losses. Modern MySQL environments face unprecedented complexity through geographic distribution, diverse workload patterns, and stringent availability requirements. Traditional monitoring approaches cannot address these challenges effectively, requiring comprehensive strategies that prevent issues before they impact operations.

Continuent Team

Tungsten University, Cluster Management, Monitoring and Observability, Zero Downtime Maintenance

In Depth MySQL Checks for HAProxy With Systemd Socket-Based Activation

Learn how to implement advanced MySQL health checks for HAProxy using systemd socket-based activation. Execute custom SQL queries for deeper database verification before routing traffic, replacing shallow TCP probes with intelligent failover decisions.

Tungsten University, Database Administration, Intelligent Proxy, Monitoring and Observability

Why Most MySQL HA Setups Fail – And How to Fix Them

After two decades of helping enterprises achieve continuous MySQL operations, we've probably seen it all. The midnight calls about failed failovers. The "highly available" systems that went down for hours during a simple maintenance window. The multi-million-dollar applications that were brought to their knees by a single database node failure.

Continuent Team

Tungsten University, Cluster Management, Deployment

Tungsten Dashboard v8: Major Improvements for MySQL Cluster Management

Explore the key features and improvements in Tungsten Dashboard v8, including a new publish/subscribe communication protocol, integrated load balancing, real-time monitoring, enhanced security, and streamlined installation. Compare v8 to v1 and see how the latest release advances MySQL cluster management

Cluster Management, Monitoring and Observability

How To Fix `do_sigver_init:no default digest` and Upgrading to AWS Signature Version 4 for S3 Uploads in Perl

When performing direct S3 file uploads using custom Perl scripts, I recently encountered a cryptic error.

New Release: Dashboard version 8.0.1

Tungsten Dashboard v8.0.1 introduces in-place upgrades with install.pl, automated certificate fetching, UI improvements, and enhanced cluster management for MySQL. Upgrade now for better security, performance, and ease of use.

Continuent Team

Continuent News, Cluster Management, Deployment, Monitoring and Observability

How To Use HAProxy with a Tungsten Connector Farm

Learn how to use HAProxy with a Tungsten Connector farm to build a high-availability MySQL proxy layer. Explore deployment architectures, load balancing strategies, and HAProxy configuration examples.

Tungsten University, Database Scalability, Deployment, Intelligent Proxy

Tungsten Operator for Kubernetes: Cloud-Native MySQL Clustering, Simplified

Simplify MySQL clustering in Kubernetes with Tungsten Operator for Tungsten Cluster v8. Automate HA deployment, backups, & failover. Cloud-native MySQL is here!

Continuent Team

Continuent News, Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid-Cloud, Database Administration, Geographic Distribution and Geo-Scale

The Best MySQL Active/Active Solution Gets Better!

Discover how Tungsten Cluster v8 builds on the already powerful v7, adding Kubernetes support, REST API v2, stronger security, and lots of enhancements to redefine MySQL clustering.

MySQL High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR), Cluster Management, Database Administration, Database Scalability

Introducing Tungsten Dashboard v8: A New Era for MySQL Cluster Management

Discover Tungsten Dashboard v8, the next-gen UI for MySQL & MariaDB clusters. Featuring a new communication protocol, improved security, and user-friendly operation triggers. Learn how to upgrade and streamline your database infrastructure today!

Continuent Team

Continuent News, Monitoring and Observability

Tungsten Cluster v8: Expanding Enterprise-Grade MySQL High Availability with Powerful New Features and Tools

New release includes nearly 30 new features, enhanced API support and advanced performance optimizations.

Continuent Team

Continuent News

Guidelines to Writing a Great REST API

Learn how the Continuent team designed a secure and effective REST API for Tungsten Clustering, including best practices for using POST, PUT, verbs, idempotent actions, and more in real-world scenarios.