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How the Continuent Proxy selects database cluster nodes for executing read operations.

This blog discusses Asynchronous versus Synchronous MySQL replication for MySQL clustering. Synchronous replication is viewed as the ‘holy grail’ of clustering. But unfortunately, when something is too good to be true, it often is. Before the Tungsten cluster solution Continuent built two synchronous replication cluster solutions (m/cluster, uni/cluster), but we abandoned those for good reasons.

ProductIP has been a Continuent customer since November 2014 and is sharing its Continuent experience here: from initially setting up their infrastructure in Hong Kong to running a geographically distributed MySQL database replication and clustering environment with Continuent Tungsten, read about their journey with us in this guest post.

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.

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.

Watch the replay of our Geo-Scale MySQL webinar: Guaranteed Global Game Access for Hundreds of Millions of Players Worldwide - Cloud-Based Active/Passive Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Riot Games.

https://www.continuent.com/resources/webinars/global-mysql-availability-saas-cloud-contact-center-secures-continuous-operationsWatch the replay of this webinar with Eero Teerikorpi, CEO at Continuent, for a walk-through (including a live demo) of how the Continuent Team helped Vonage build a multi-region active/active MySQL Tungsten Cluster in AWS Cloud serving a global high-volume Cloud Contact Center.

This blog discusses some best practices for using multiple filesystems on MySQL database servers and how to achieve the best performance with them, while avoiding some of the possible pitfalls.

Do-it-Yourself (DIY), database migration; what other approaches are there to challenges of MySQL availability, reliability, scalability and application performance?

Continuent Tungsten enables greater application availability and performance especially across WAN, it saves tons of manual labor and headache, it’s backed by premium 24/7/365 support, and it enables all sorts of new freedom and possibilities for data infrastructure including multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, and advanced, real-time analytics.

People approach Continuent for many reasons, including: MySQL Continuous Operations: their business is using MySQL for business-critical applications that require zero downtime, including for maintenance updates MySQL Performance: their application performance and user experience are suffering due to a faltering MySQL backend

The Slow Software Movement is spreading with SaaS companies going global...and their software is the furthest from “slow.” In this blog, a Customer Success Manager at Continuent writes about some observations in her five years of listening to customers and prospects.

Improving MySQL Write Performance for Tungsten Cluster Slaves: In this blog post we explore various options for performance tuning MySQL server for better replica replication performance.