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Tungsten Clustering is a powerful tool with many moving parts, including the Tungsten Connectors which may be installed on any application server. During a troubleshooting event, it is helpful to understand what to look for and where, in addition to understanding how the logs work together to provide a clear picture of the situation. In Tungsten version 7, we introduced a number of features designed to make troubleshooting easier, and this blog will cover some of that too.

We are pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator GA versions 7.0.1 are now available. This new minor release includes 52 new features and improvements, including two critical bug fixes. Read this blog to learn about the new v7.0.1 release!

We are pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator GA version 6.1.17 are now available. Tungsten allows enterprises running business-critical MySQL database applications to cost-effectively achieve continuous global operations with commercial-grade high availability (HA), geographically redundant disaster recovery (DR) and geographically distributed active/active.

At Continuent, we believe high-quality 24/7/365 Support is rare and invaluable. In today’s blog, I’d like to tell a short story about our support because it makes me really proud of my company. Our Support delivering effective solutions in an agile manner is just one of the many benefits of using Tungsten - and it’s cited as one of the main reasons our Customers stick with Continuent year after year.

We are pleased to announce that Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator GA versions 7.0 are now available. This new major release includes the Tungsten RESTful API (API v2.0), enhanced security, monitoring, performance, management, new commands, a new and improved Dashboard, and new Dynamic Active/Active (DAA) topology. Tungsten v7.0 is the culmination of years of planning and work, and it lays the foundation for even more pinnacle developments. Read this blog to learn about the new v7 release!

Tungsten is the go-to replication and clustering solution for MySQL - powering real-world, geo-distributed business-critical applications. Sometimes we get asked by those who are not familiar with us, what we mean by “MySQL,” and this blog is meant to shed some light on this question.

One of the common misconceptions about Continuent is that because Tungsten does not have an open source license, we do not support open source. In fact, quite the opposite, in everything we do. The whole purpose of Tungsten Clustering is to empower and enable teams that build business-critical applications on open source databases.

This leads us to the subject of this blog: how Tungsten is designed for openness.

Hop on-board and sail the San Francisco Bay with the Founder and CEO of Continuent, Eero Teerikorpi, as he zeros in on one of the reasons customers love Continuent’s 24/7/365 customer service: speed. Of course, speed isn’t everything - but when combined with highly experienced and available DBAs, SysAdmins and Architects - it’s hard to find better peace of mind about your business-critical databases.

The tungsten_merge_logs command is designed to aid troubleshooting by consolidating the various log files into one place (merged.log), ordered by time. There are many moving parts to a cluster and they are spread over multiple nodes (usually three). When there is an issue, the logs are the key resource to find out what is going on. The best practice is to gather the log files into one place and then read through them all. This can be difficult with many files on multiple nodes. For this reason, the `tungsten_merge_logs` tool was created.

“How can I simulate a failure of the Active half of an Active/Passive Cluster to test the Failover to the Passive half?”

In this blog post we explore the best practices for simulating a failure of the Active cluster in an Active/Passive Composite Cluster.

As we are all being pushed to the limit to meet unprecedented demands online, the pandemic shined a light on many new frontiers and achievements in technology. This blog is about continuous MySQL database operations when you have a global user base, particularly the VMworld 2021 Global Multi-Cloud conference.

MySQL High Availability (HA) is typically what architects and technologists look for in building business-critical and mission-critical applications, and they aspire to measure MySQL uptime in 4 or preferably more “nines.” This blog explores the modern world of continuous MySQL operations - cross-region, global, hybrid-cloud, and multi-cloud - and why you might need a different approach.