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An in-depth guide to multi-region MySQL for SaaS, covering design principles, challenges, and proven architecture patterns for global scale.

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.

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.

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.

Prometheus and Grafana are open source tools that can be used for monitoring MySQL clusters. Prometheus can be used to collect metrics from MySQL clusters, and Grafana can be used to visualize the metrics. Starting with Tungsten v7, using the new Tungsten Prometheus Exporter feature, it’s become easy to leverage the best these powerful monitoring tools have to offer.

In this blog post, we explore the 10 basic steps for doing a secure Tungsten Clustering deployment. A fresh Tungsten version 7 installation is secure by default. We also cover the various tungsten.ini options that impact an install.

This article will explain how to use rsync to quickly provision a database.

In this blog, we cover Continuents plans on the support model for the new MySQL “Innovation” releases.

If you are upgrading from MySQL 5.x to MySQL 8, using Tungsten Clustering or Tungsten Replicator, then you may need to prepare yourself for a little gotcha.

VMware chose to migrate key MySQL database from Galera (MariaDB Cluster) to Tungsten. In this blog we will look at the key reasons for why VMware ultimately decided that Tungsten Cluster would better fit their multi-site MySQL clusters.

This blog post will walk you through configuring HA Proxy for the Tungsten Dashboard, along with the new command `tpm generate-haproxy-for-api` which helps automate the process by translating existing INI files into haproxy.cfg config file format. The Tungsten Dashboard is a browser-based GUI, designed to make using a Tungsten Cluster as easy as possible.

This post shares the links to three short demo videos, each an easy-to-follow walk-through of how to launch 3-node single, active/passive or active/active Tungsten MySQL clusters using AWS CloudFormation.