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You’ve seen the recent news about AWS outages; enterprises have to think about where their physical AWS data centers are and treat them as a single point of failure. As such, enterprises running business-critical and mission-critical applications are accounting for geography of public cloud resources in their business-continuity plans. Learn about a solution for continuous operations for your MySQL database that’s a step above traditional MySQL Disaster Recovery (DR).

This blog takes a look at three stacks: networking, LAMP, and the modern MySQL database clustering stack. The networking stack is a foundational element of geo-distributed MySQL database services. LAMP is a common software solution stack used by web and other client-server applications. The modern database clustering stack enables multi-site, multi-region and globally distributed MySQL database systems for continuous operations, which Tungsten Clustering provides in a complete, fully-integrated and tested package.

“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.

On August 20th, 2020 we released v6.1.6 of our Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator products. On August 17th, 2021, we released v6.1.14. In this blog we take a look back over the last 12 months and highlight some of our key updates and fixes.

Doing a search with InnoDB Cluster with DR (Disaster Recovery) yields lots of results, but does it actually work in the enterprise?

Doing a search with InnoDB Cluster with DR (Disaster Recovery) yields lots of results, but does it actually work in the enterprise?

For MySQL and MariaDB database clusters, Saas, Fintech and other organizations with mission-critical databases typically require what’s called a managed “composite” cluster, or “cluster-of-clusters.” This blog is about active/active versus active/passive composite clusters for MySQL and MariaDB database systems.

This blog is the first blog in a new series about Tungsten’s QA (Quality Assurance). Continuent Tungsten is a clustering and replication solution for MySQL and MariaDB, used by some of the largest MySQL estates to achieve continuous MySQL operations and uptime; why? Besides the stellar support team, and fully-integrated components, customers say: “Stability,” and, “It just works.”

Welcome to the wonderful world of open source! You really are on your own, even if you think you acquire a solution that works. But many of the companies offering solutions based on open source components wrapped with expensive consulting engagements really can’t help you as they are not the original developers of some of the important core components, thus they do not have the necessary skills to fix them either.Welcome to the wonderful world of open source! You really are on your own, even if you think you acquire a solution that works. But many of the companies offering solutions based on open source components wrapped with expensive consulting engagements really can’t help you as they are not the original developers of some of the important core components, thus they do not have the necessary skills to fix them either.

Instead of contributing back to the original project, and in that way benefitting the project as a whole, Percona takes over smaller open-source projects (such as Galera) and larger open source projects (MySQL, MongoDB), then adds some small enhancements (especially when compared to the work done by the original developers), slaps its own name on it and proceeds to make some negative comments against those who have done the hardest work.