How to Deploy and Configure MaxScale for SQL Load Balancing with Read-Write Split
There are two models of load balancing: transport and application layer. HAProxy is a great TCP load balancer, but it’s lack of SQL awareness effectively limits its ability to address certain scaling issues in distributed...
How to Cluster Atlassian Server Apps in Your Data Center – JIRA, Confluence, Stash with MySQL Galera Cluster
Atlassian apps are widely used by development teams to facilitate software development and collaboration. For larger teams who require enterprise-grade tools, you might want to host the applications in your own data center and cluster...
How to Deploy High Availability CloudStack/CloudPlatform with MariaDB Galera Cluster
Apache CloudStack is a turnkey orchestration platform to deliver IaaS clouds. As a cloud infrastructure scales to hundreds or thousands of servers, with production environments supporting multiple applications and services, high availability becomes a key...
High Availability File Sync and Share – Deploying ownCloud with Galera Cluster for MySQL and GlusterFS
Cloud storage is hot. Dropbox, Apple iCloud, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive and Amazon Cloud Drive all offer cloud sharing platforms where you can store documents in the cloud and access them from all your devices....
Chef Cookbooks for ClusterControl – Management and Monitoring for Your Database Clusters
If you are automating your infrastructure deployments with Chef, then read on. We are glad to announce the availability of a Chef cookbook for ClusterControl. This cookbook replaces previous cookbooks we released for ClusterControl and...
Multi-Source Replication with MariaDB Galera Cluster
MariaDB 10 supports multi-source replication, and each MariaDB Galera node can have up to 64 masters connected to it. So it is possible to use a MariaDB Cluster as an aggregator for many single-instance MariaDB...
Multi-Source Replication with Galera Cluster for MySQL
Multi-source replication means that one server can have multiple masters from which it replicates. Why multi-source? One good reason is to consolidate databases (e.g. merge your shards) for analytical reporting or as a centralized backup...
Webinar Replay: 9 DevOps Tips for Going in Production with Galera Cluster for MySQL
Thanks to everyone who attended and participated in this week's webinar on '9 DevOps Tips for Going in Production with Galera Cluster for MySQL'. If you missed the sessions or would like to watch the...
How to Setup High Availability PrestaShop on Multiple Servers with MariaDB Galera Cluster
PrestaShop is a popular open source e-commerce software powering over 200,000 online stores, according to the company. We’ve seen a bit of interest into high availability PrestaShop setups, so this post will show you how...
Data Warehouse in the Cloud – How to Upload MySQL Data Into Amazon Redshift for Reporting and Analytics
The term data warehousing often brings to mind things like large complex projects, big businesses, proprietary hardware and expensive software licenses. With Hadoop came open source data analysis software that ran on commodity hardware, this...
Puppet Module for ClusterControl – Adding Management and Monitoring to Your Existing Database Clusters
If you are automating your infrastructure using Puppet, then this blog is for you. We are glad to announce the availability of a Puppet module for ClusterControl. For those using Chef, we already published Chef cookbooks for...
9 Tips for Going in Production with Galera Cluster for MySQL
Are you going in production with Galera Cluster for MySQL? Here are 9 tips to consider before going live. These are applicable to all 3 Galera versions (Codership, Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Galera Cluster)....