Comparing Percona XtraDB Cluster with Semi-Sync replication Cross-WAN
I have a customer who is considering Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a two colo WAN environment. They wanted me to do a test comparing PXC against semi-synchronous replication to see how they stack up...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster reference architecture with HaProxy
This post is a step-by-step guide to set up Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in a virtualized test sandbox. I used Amazon EC2 micro instances, but the content here is applicable for any kind of...
View ArticlePercona Toolkit 2.1.8 released today with beta support for MySQL 5.6
Percona Toolkit 2.1.8Percona Toolkit 2.1.8 was released today and the new version comes with some pretty cool news: Beta support for MySQL 5.6 (which as you might know is also in beta).In addition to...
View ArticleFollow these basics when migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump right in without enough testing. Consequently, they’re more likely to either suffer failure or issues that...
View ArticleIs Synchronous Replication right for your app?
I talk with lot of people who are really interested in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and mostly they are interested in PXC as a high-availability solution. But, what they tend not to think too much...
View ArticleChoosing a MySQL HA Solution – MySQL Webinar: June 5
Selecting the most appropriate solution for a MySQL HA infrastructure is as much a business and philosophical decision as it is a technical one, but often the choice is made without adequately...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!
The aim of this post is to enumerate real-world usage of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and also to solicit use cases from the readers. One of the prominent usages in the production environment that we...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster: Setting up a simple cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is different enough from async replication that it can be a bit of a puzzle how to do things the Galera way. This post will attempt to illustrate the basics of setting up...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster/ Galera with Percona Monitoring Plugins
The Percona Monitoring Plugins (PMP) provide some free tools to make it easier to monitor PXC/Galera nodes. Monitoring broadly falls into two categories: alerting and historical graphing, and the...
View ArticleBefore every release: A glimpse into Percona XtraDB Cluster CI testing
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing,...
View ArticleBenchmark: SimpleHTTPServer vs pyclustercheck (twisted implementation)
Github user Adrianlzt provided a python-twisted alternative version of pyclustercheck per discussion on issue 7.Due to sporadic performance issues noted with the original implementation in...
View ArticleFollow these basics when migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster for MySQL
Galera/Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) for MySQL is a hot thing right now and some users jump right in without enough testing. Consequently, they’re more likely to either suffer failure or issues that...
View ArticleIs Synchronous Replication right for your app?
I talk with lot of people who are really interested in Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) and mostly they are interested in PXC as a high-availability solution. But, what they tend not to think too much...
View ArticleChoosing a MySQL HA Solution – MySQL Webinar: June 5
Selecting the most appropriate solution for a MySQL HA infrastructure is as much a business and philosophical decision as it is a technical one, but often the choice is made without adequately...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) in the real world: Share your use cases!
The aim of this post is to enumerate real-world usage of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC), and also to solicit use cases from the readers. One of the prominent usages in the production environment that we...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster: Setting up a simple cluster
Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) is different enough from async replication that it can be a bit of a puzzle how to do things the Galera way. This post will attempt to illustrate the basics of setting up...
View ArticlePercona XtraDB Cluster/ Galera with Percona Monitoring Plugins
The Percona Monitoring Plugins (PMP) provide some free tools to make it easier to monitor PXC/Galera nodes. Monitoring broadly falls into two categories: alerting and historical graphing, and the...
View ArticleBefore every release: A glimpse into Percona XtraDB Cluster CI testing
I spoke last month at linux.conf.au 2014 in Perth, Australia, and one of my sessions focused on the “Continuous Integration (CI) testing of Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC)” at the Developer,Testing,...
View ArticleBenchmark: SimpleHTTPServer vs pyclustercheck (twisted implementation)
Github user Adrianlzt provided a python-twisted alternative version of pyclustercheck per discussion on issue 7.Due to sporadic performance issues noted with the original implementation in...
View ArticleGalera replication – how to recover a PXC cluster
Galera replication for MySQL brings not only the new, great features to our ecosystem, but also introduces completely new maintenance techniques. Are you concerned about adding such new complexity to...
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