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Software Packaging EngineerJob Description & Main Responsibilities

Codership is looking for a part-time Build and Packaging Engineer. We use Jenkins to build various packages for multiple distros and the engineer will take ownership of the build pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios.

There are plenty of interesting problems to tackle on the job, from crafting .spec files with complex dependencies to automatically testing no-downtime rolling upgrades of a distributed system.

Main Responsibilities

•  take the ownership of and maintain Galera Cluster packages on Linux (.RPM and .DEB) and BSD

• maintain the automatic package building pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios

Desired Skills & Requirements

• knowledge of …

Codership’s Galera Cluster Best Practices Webinar for MySQL DBAs and DevOps Part One is now available to watch here

Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Cluster 5.5.49 and 5.6.30 with Galera Replication library 3.16, implementing wsrep API version 25.

The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions including RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes.

This and future releases will be available from http://www.galeracluster.com. The source repositories and bug tracking are now on http://www.github.com/codership .

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.5.49 and 5.6.30.

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.15):

• a counter is now used to track the number of desync operations currently running
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Once again Galera Cluster is a popular topic at Percona Live 2016. There are 7 Galera Cluster presentations in Percona Live Santa Clara 18-21.4. Codership’s co-founder and Galera developer Seppo Jaakola talks about Schema Upgrades in Galera Cluster, 20 April 01:00 PM – 01:50 PM @ Ballroom A.  The number includes many Percona XtraDB Cluster presentations, which is based on Codership’s Galera Cluster.

Codership will also have a booth at the conference. Meet the developers and experts of Galera Cluster and visit our booth 507!

Tuesday 19 April

Orchestrating Percona XtraDB Cluster with Kubernetes (Raghavendra Prabhu)  3:50 PM – 04:40 PM @ Ballroom D

Percona XtraDB Cluster Reference Architecture 2016 (Jay …

AGENDA:

In this webinar, we will discuss the practical aspects of migrating a database setup based on traditional asynchronous replication to multi-master Galera Cluster. We will discuss the benefits Galera provides and how traditional replication settings, architecture and practices can be converted to Galera Cluster. We will show the steps that are needed to perform the migration with limited or no downtime, and will demonstrate the procedure in practice using a live database with an actual workload.

Galera Cluster is trusted by thousands of users. Galera Cluster powers Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster. This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tue, Apr 12, 2016 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT (Pacific time)

PRESENTERS: Philip Stoev, Sakari Keskitalo …

Codership’s first Galera Cluster for MySQL webinar “hit a home run” in the world series of webinars.  One of the attendees said: “The Webinar was one of the best I have attended.  The fluff was minimized and the tech presentation hit a home run” .

Take a look Codership’s Galera Cluster® for MySQL Installation and Quick Start recorded webinar

http://galeracluster.com/videos/galera-cluster-installation-and-quick-start/

There will be other  Galera Cluster for MySQL webinars coming from the developers and experts of Galera Cluster, so stay tuned.

Galera, Galera Cluster and Galera Replication are registered trademarks of Codership.

Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Cluster 5.5.48 and 5.6.29 with Galera Replication library 3.15, implementing wsrep API version 25.

The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes.

This and future releases will be available from http://www.galeracluster.com. The source repositories and bug tracking are now on http://www.github.com/codership .

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.5.48 and 5.6.29.

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.14):

• fixes for compiling on Alpha / HP PA / s390x architectures (codership/galera#389)
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Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Cluster 5.5.47 and 5.6.28 with Galera Replication library 3.14, implementing wsrep API version 25.

The library is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the deployment and upgrade of Galera nodes.

This and future releases will be available from http://www.galeracluster.com. The source repositories and bug tracking are now on http://www.github.com/codership .

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.5.47 and 5.6.28.

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.13):

• use system ASIO library when compiling, if available (codership/galera#367)
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The results in the survey were very favourable to Galera Cluster providing high availability for MySQL and OpenStack components. Galera Cluster with MariaDB received second place, Galera with MySQL fifth place and Galera with Percona Server (Percona XtraDB Cluster) sixth place. Altogether Galera Cluster with three different MySQL variants is clearly the most popular database high availability solution for OpenStack users.

This survey report analyzes respondents who completed or updated the survey during a two-week window in September 2015, and questions represent some modifications from prior surveys in keeping with the evolution of the OpenStack platform. This survey represents a snapshot of 1,315 users and 352 deployments, provided voluntarily. The User Survey is not a market survey and does not express …