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A deep dive into multi-region MySQL deployment patterns on Kubernetes, exploring replication models, failover strategies, and the operational trade-offs required to achieve global scale and resilience.

A practical guide to MySQL failover strategies, comparing automated and manual approaches, and examining risks such as replication lag, split-brain, and incorrect promotion in high availability environments.

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.

Discover the benefits of Tungsten Active-Active Clustering for MySQL. Learn how this solution ensures high availability, scalability, low-latency data access, and disaster recovery for businesses with global operations.

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 various options for performance tuning MySQL server for better replica replication performance.

Cloud-based managed MySQL data services have become popular choices for businesses. While these services offer advantages, they also come with a host of drawbacks that can impact performance, control, and costs. This post explores these key drawbacks in detail and compares those to Tungsten Clustering running in the cloud, also multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud and on-premises.

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

Learn why Aurora Global Database from Amazon may not be a truly global solution for multi-region deployment, and how Tungsten Cluster can help achieve seamless failover in the event of regional outages, without affecting unaffected regions, keeping applications online, and with failback capability.

It may seem arduous, but there are ways to build a database stack where you have full control of your data and data operations. For mission-critical applications that must perform continuously 24/7/365, it might make a lot of sense to consider, as there are many benefits to taking control of your mission-critical data and operations. Below are a couple important points to consider when doing an analysis of what’s best for your application and end users.

In this blog, Continuent’s CEO and Founder, Eero Teerikorpi, was prompted by a headline in the Finnish News to write about the MySQL and MariaDB business and ecosystem.

Running highly-available WordPress is especially challenging, because WordPress is not by nature Active/Active-aware, and will refuse to run in an environment where database writes are active-active. In this blog post Part 1, we will explore the design considerations for making WordPress highly-available at the database layer. We also cover some other WordPress HA architecture needs, like the need for a shared filesystem.