In this post, we are going to show how to develop fault-tolerant applications using MySQL Fabric, or simply Fabric, which is an approach to building high availability sharding solutions for MySQL and that has recently become available for download as a labs release (http://labs.mysql.com/). We are going to focus on Fabric's high availability aspects but to find out more on sharding readers may check out the following blog post:

•  http://vnwrites.blogspot.com/2013/09/mysqlfabric-sharding-introduction.html

Servers managed by Fabric are registered in a MySQL Server instance, called backing store, and are …

I was rooting through past blog entries and I stumbled accross a draft post on setting up multi-master (update anywhere) asynchronous replication for MySQL Cluster. The post never quite got finished and published and while the material is now 4 years old it may still be helpfull to some and so I’m posting it now. Note that a lot has happened with MySQL Cluster in the last 4 years and in this area, the most notable change has been the Enhanced conflict resolution with MySQL Cluster active-active replication feature introduced in MySQL Cluster 7.2 and if you’re only dealing with a pair of Clusters, that’s your best option as it removed the need for you to maintain the timestamp columns and backs out entire transactions rather than just the conflicting rows. So when would you use this “legacy” method? The main use case is when you want conflict detection/resolution among a ring of more than …

On 17th October I’ll be running a hands-on workshop on the various technologies available to provide High Availability using MySQL. The workshop is being held on 17th October (the day before the All Your Base conference) in Oxford (UK). The cost is £250 + VAT and you can register here.

This workshop provides an introduction to what High Availability (HA) is; what technology options are available to achieve it with MySQL and how to actually implement your own HA solutions. The session will be a mixture of presentations, demonstrations and (most importantly) hands-on tutorials.

We’ll start with an overview of High Availability – in general and in the context of MySQL and then a survey of the technologies to choose from:

• MySQL …

We’ve all been through downtime at some point and deplore the lost work and productivity that comes with it. And the only thing worse than server downtime is having to report that downtime to frustrated customers who are depending on your service for their business.

Yesterday, AWS server issues meant downtime for highly trafficked sites Instagram, Vine, Airbnb, and IFTTTA. According to AWS’s health dashboard, the company’s North Virginia data center may be to blame.

The fact is, any cloud system is subject to outages, from Yahoo Mail to Microsoft BPOS and VMware; however, outages aren’t and shouldn’t be business as normal.

While we never wish for anyone to experience downtime, when stories like AWS hit the …

With the General Availability of the standalone MySQL Utilities it now makes sense to use these to simplify (and optionally automate) your MySQL Replication and High Availability solutions. In light of that, 4 of our MySQL white papers have been updated to reflect the new opportunities:

MySQL Guide to High Availability Solutions. Data is the currency of today’s web, mobile, social, enterprise and cloud applications. Ensuring data is always available is a top priority for any organization – minutes of downtime will result in significant loss of …

With the release of MySQL Utilities 1.3.4, the standalone (not bundled with the MySQL WorkBench GUI) package is now Generally Available and fully supported. This post will focus on a very important change (the ability to run as a daemon rather than in a terminal) to the mysqlfailover utility which allows you to build a light-weight HA database solution using MySQL Replication.

For a general overview of MySQL Utilities, take a look at this recent webinar or for a deeper dive into using them to setup replication and adding auto-failover of the master function to slaves watch this video and worked example. …

Among many of the improvements you can enjoy in MySQL 5.6, there is one that addresses a huge operational problem that most DBAs and System Administrators encounter in their life: schema changes.

While it is usually not a problem for small tables or those in early stages of product life cycle, schema changes become a huge pain once your tables get a significant amount of data. Planning for maintenance is becoming more and more difficult, and your worldwide users want the service to be up and running 24/7, while on the other hand, your developers desire to introduce schema changes every week.

Read my full article on MySQL Performance Blog

Among many of the improvements you can enjoy in MySQL 5.6, there is one that addresses a huge operational problem that most DBAs and System Administrators encounter in their life: schema changes.

While it is usually not a problem for small tables or those in early stages of product life cycle, schema changes become a huge pain once your tables get a significant amount of data. Planning for maintenance is becoming more and more difficult, and your worldwide users want the service to be up and running 24/7, while on the other hand, your developers desire to introduce schema changes every week.

PITA

But what is the real problem here? Let me illustrate very typical case:

Session1> ALTER TABLE revision ADD COLUMN mycol tinyint;
Query OK, 1611193 rows affected (1 min 5.74 sec)
Records: 1611193  Duplicates: 0 …

July 2, 2013 By Severalnines

Joomla! is estimated to be the second most used CMS on the internet after WordPress, with users like eBay, IKEA, Sony, McDonald’s and Pizza Hut. In this post, we will describe how to scale Joomla on multiple servers. This architecture not only allows the CMS to handle more users, by load-balancing traffic across multiple servers. It also brings high availability by providing fail-over between servers.

This post is similar to our previous posts on web application scalability and high availability:

• Drupal - Apache, MySQL Galera Cluster, csync2 with lsyncd
• Wordpress - Apache, Percona XtraDB Cluster, …

June 28, 2013 By Severalnines

This article describes how to setup replication between a regular MySQL server and a Galera Cluster. The regular MySQL Server is the MASTER , and one of the Galera nodes will be the SLAVE:

In this example we have the following hosts:

• REGULAR MASTER: 10.0.1.10
• GALERA NODE #1 (SLAVE): 10.0.1.11

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