If Continuent Support Was a Cartoon Character...
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In this blog we will explore Continuent Support...What we do, how we do it and the tools available to the customer that make all that happen at lightning speed.
Product Release Review
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.
Tungsten Bug Hunting: QA for Business-Critical MySQL Clustering Software
This blog is about Bug Hunting. “Battle-tested” is the Continuent Tungsten QA (Quality Assurance) guarantee. 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, locally and globally (HA, DR and Geo Distribution). Besides the stellar support team, and fully-integrated components, customers say: “Stability,” and, “Tungsten just works.”
Monitoring Made Easy: Watching Your Tungsten Cluster Using Built-In Tools
Continuent provides multiple methods out of the box to monitor the cluster health. It integrates with monitoring and alerting tools like Nagios/NRPE, Zabbix, and Pagerduty. This blog post shows you the thinking behind each included Tungsten Cluster monitoring tool, and when to use which tool.
Simulating Realistic Conditions: QA for Business-critical MySQL Clustering
“Battle-tested” is the Continuent Tungsten QA (Quality Assurance) guarantee. 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.”“Battle-tested” is the Continuent Tungsten QA (Quality Assurance) guarantee. 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.”
MySQL Disaster Recovery (DR) with InnoDB Cluster - Really?
Doing a search with InnoDB Cluster with DR (Disaster Recovery) yields lots of results, but does it actually work in the enterprise?
DR with InnoDB Cluster - Possible?
Doing a search with InnoDB Cluster with DR (Disaster Recovery) yields lots of results, but does it actually work in the enterprise?
Active/Active vs. Active/Passive MySQL Database Geo-Clusters
For multi-site, multi-region, or geo-distributed MySQL or MariaDB clusters, Saas, Fintech and other organizations with business-critical MySQL databases typically require what’s called a managed “composite” cluster, or “cluster-of-clusters.” This blog is about active/active and active/passive composite clusters for multi-site MySQL and MariaDB database systems.
Intro to Business-Critical Software QA
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.”
Troubleshooting Failed DDL Across All Replicas In a Tungsten Cluster
This blog is about troubleshooting failed DDL across all Replicas in a composite active/active (CAA) Tungsten Cluster. The issue was resolved by setting a more permissive SQL_MODE, then locating and cleaning the bad data with proper NULLs before re-issuing the ALTER TABLE.
Complete, Fully-tested and Proven - One Can Only Hope!
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.
All the Resources You Need For High Performance MySQL, MariaDB & Percona Server Replication
Tungsten Replicator is the most advanced heterogeneous real-time data replication solution for MySQL, MariaDB & Percona Server, including Amazon RDS MySQL and Amazon Aurora. It provides high-performance and improved replication functionality over the native MySQL replication solution and into a range of target databases.
