Mon, 2016-03-07 07:49massimiliano_pinto_gMaxScale as a replication proxy, aka the Binlog Server
In database setups with a large number of users reading data, the Binlog Server can be used to offload traffic to the Master, make Master failover easier to handle and in general simplify replication. In this blog I will describe the benefits of Binlog Server and how to set up MaxScale as a Binlog Server.
In a traditional MariaDB/MySQL replication setup a single master server is created and a set of slaves of MariaDB/MySQL servers are configured to pull the binlog files from the master, putting a lot of load on the master. Introducing a layer between the master server and the slave servers can reduce the load on the master by only serving MaxScale’s Binlog Server instead of all the slaves. The slaves will only need to be aware of the Binlog Server and not the real master server. Removing the requirement for the slaves to have knowledge …
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