The Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition

Codership is pleased to announce the Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition.

Galera Cluster Enterprise Edition consists of an enhanced Galera Cluster server, Galera Manager and Galera Load Balancer.

The enhanced Galera Cluster Server includes

1) A new Online Schema Upgrade method called Non Blocking Operations (NBO), adds more high availability to your cluster while performing schema changes.

• • Schema changes made on all cluster nodes in the same total order sequence, with much more efficient locking compared to the Total Order Isolation (TOI) method.
  • SET GLOBAL wsrep_OSU_method='NBO'

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Codership is proud to announce the first Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster 4 for MySQL 8 and improve MySQL High Availability a great deal. The current release comes with MySQL 8.0.19 and includes the Galera Replication Library 4.5 with wsrep API version 26. You can download it now (and note that we have packages for various Linux distributions). 

Galera 4 and MySQL 8.0.19 have many new features, but here are some of the highlights:

• Streaming replication to support large transactions by splitting transaction replication then applying them in smaller fragments. You can use this feature to load data faster, as data is written to all nodes simultaneously (or not at all in case of a failure in any single node).
• Improved …

A time for new beginnings beckons upon us, and Codership is pleased to announce the much anticipated Release Candidate of MySQL 8.0 that comes with Galera 4. It comes with MySQL 8.0.19 and includes the Galera Replication Library 4.5 Release Candidate and wsrep API version 26. 

Galera 4 and MySQL 8.0.19 have many new features, but here are some of the highlights:

• Streaming replication to support large transactions by splitting transaction replication then applying them in smaller fragments.
• Improved foreign key support, as write set certification rules are optimised and there will be a reduction in the number of foreign key related false conflicts in certifications.
• Group commit is …

Do you think Quality Assurance (QA) is more than the simplistic view of bug hunting? Do you believe that QA is important to the entire software development lifecycle and want to focus on failure testing, process and performance control, as well as best practice adoption? Do you enjoy doing performance benchmarks and noticing regressions? Do you like to write about it, from internal reports to external blog posts?

Then why not take up a challenge at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster, as we are looking for a Galera Cluster QA Engineer (job description at link).

We’re looking for someone who is able to work remotely, join a company meeting at least once per year, be comfortable with the use of Slack and email (asynchronous communication, for developing our virtually synchronous replication solution!), but most importantly enjoy testing the …

Congratulations to Team MariaDB at MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation for releasing MariaDB 10.4.6 as Generally Available (GA) last week on 18 June 2019. This release is very exciting for Galera Cluster users as it comes with Galera 4 (it is now the first server to come with it!), with Galera wsrep library version 26.4.2.

What can Galera Cluster users expect from MariaDB 10.4? Some high level features include:

• Streaming replication — a huge boost to large transaction support, since the node breaks transactions into fragments, replicates and certifies it across all secondary nodes while the transaction is still in progress. Read more about it in our dedicated documentation on streaming replication as well …

Paytrail

“Galera Cluster has supported our growth all the way from a small number of transactions to high volume  traffic. Since 2012 our payment service with Galera has processed over 4 billion euros worth of product and service sales. Today we help 10 000+ webshops and online services in several countries to provide a pleasant shopping experience to their customers”

THINQ

“We’re very happy how Galera Cluster facilitated automated failover eliminating downtime for THINQ services that programmatically route millions of phone calls. The comprehensive Codership documentation includes, for example, the AppArmor package settings necessary to make Galera Cluster nodes more secure. ”

North Carolina based, THINQ is a cloud-based software company that develops Business as a Service (BaaS) solutions for the telecommunications industry. Partners …

Galera Cluster is the leading high availability solution for MySQL and MariaDB. We are always looking for bright and driven people who have a passion for technology, especially for database replication and clustering. If you are interested in challenging work, being part of a innovative team and world’s leading MySQL clustering company-then Codership is right place for you!  This is a remote job.

Job Description and Responsibilities

• Write Galera Cluster technical marketing material (blogs, white papers, benchmarks)
• Prepare presentations and present at webinars and conferences
• Be active in social media channels and forums
• Consult customers for Galera Cluster best practices
• Pre-sales support
• Interface with the development team to provide user feedback
• Assist in writing Galera documentation

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Join Galera Cluster team!  Both jobs are key positions at Codership. You will influence a great deal to Galera Cluster user experience.  We have thousands of users.

Galera Cluster QA Engineer

The QA Engineer/release manager will be responsible for working with the development team at Codership and create and execute tests, make builds of Galera Cluster and develop and extend test automation frameworks.

You will be also working closely with MariaDB development and quality assurance teams to prioritize software bug fixes.

Tasks

• Continuously refine the QA process to improve product quality
• Troubleshoot and work with the development team to isolate issues
• Create and maintain automated tests
• Make Galera software builds (our build pipeline uses python, Jenkins, Docker and Qemu)
• Assist customers with their …

The white paper shares lessons learned from a careful, component level analysis of China Mobile’s 1000-node OpenStack cloud. They uncovered three major issues in the course of this study, all addressed through OpenStack configuration changes. The result: a more stable and performant China Mobile OpenStack cloud and insights into scale bottlenecks and areas for future work.

Read the full story: Analyzing and Tuning China Mobile’s OpenStack Production Cloud white paper below

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Codership QA Engineer

The QA Engineer/release manager will be responsible for working with the development team at Codership and create and execute tests, make builds of Galera Cluster and develop and extend test automation frameworks.

You will be also working closely with MariaDB development and quality assurance teams to prioritize software bug fixes.

Tasks

• Continuously refine the QA process to improve product qualitY
• Troubleshoot and work with the development team to isolate issues
• Create and maintain automated tests
• Make Galera software builds (our build pipeline uses python, Jenkins, Docker and Qemu)
• Assist customers with their questions and support tickets

Desired Skills and Experience

• 3 years of experience in QA on Linux
• Proven record of implementing test …