In a previous post, we gave you a quick overview of the MaxScale load balancer and walked through installation and configuration. We did some quick benchmarks using sysbench, a system performance benchmark that supports testing CPU, memory, IO, mutex and also MySQL performance. We will be sharing the results in this blog post.

Sysbench setup

For our tests we used the latest version of sysbench, straight from bzr. Installation is simple. First, make sure you have all the prerequisites. For Ubuntu these are: libmysqlclient-dev (or equivalent), bzr, automake, make, libtool and libssl-dev.

Get the code and compile it:

$ cd /root
$ bzr branch lp:sysbench
$ cd /root/sysbench
$ …

Last week at Percona Live, VividCortex received the MySQL community award for 2015 Application of the Year.

Baron Schwartz, our founder and CEO, is quoted, “It’s an honor to receive this award from the MySQL community. We aim to raise the bar for database monitoring the same way MySQL has raised the bar for open source databases. Our product would not be at this point without the dedication and help of our employees, friends, customers and investors. We thank them for their support and look forward to many years of mutually beneficial relationships. On a personal note, as a previous recipient of Community Member of the Year award, and having dedicated the last decade of my life to the MySQL community, this is deeply meaningful to me.”

If you have not yet tried VividCortex, sign up for a free trial to get unprecedented insights into your databases.

Mon, 2015-04-20 20:43Marc Sherwood

So I am now back in my office in Vancouver, BC after an amazing week in Santa Clara for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. I though that I would take a break from trying to catch up with my email and write down some quick thoughts about this great event. 

This year's event was announced to be the largest in several years, with an estimated 1200 people in attendance. To me what stands out about this number is just how it supports the fact that the MariaDB and MySQL community is growing and stronger than ever. If we assume that each of the 1200 attendees were our of the office for the full three days we are looking at 28,800 hours dedicated to learning and sharing about MariaDB and MySQL at this event!

This year our team has eight talks/tutorials and keynotes combined. You can see a full list of our …

Taxonomy upgrade extras:  mysql performance monitor monitoring fpmmm maas performance monitor mpm

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.10.1 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster and Percona Server fpmmm.

You can download …

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 0.10.1 of its popular Database Performance Monitor for MySQL, MariaDB, Galera Cluster and Percona Server fpmmm.

You can download fpmmm from here.

In the inconceivable case that you find a bug in fpmmm please report it to our Bug-tracker.

Any feedback, statements and testimonials are welcome as well! Please send them to feedback@fromdual.com.

This release contains various minor bug fixes and improvements. Mainly it was a rewrite from Perl into PHP.

New installation of fpmmm v0.10.1

Please follow our …

Somebody suggested that I try out thin, “A fast and very simple Ruby web server.” So, I thought it might be interesting to test, and a simplification over Rails to demonstrate an small Ruby MVC pattern.

Installing thin seemed straight forward as a gem installation, like

gem install thin

The initial install didn’t work out of the box because I’d neglected to install the gcc-c++ library. It raised the following errors:

Fetching: eventmachine-1.0.7.gem (100%)
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing thin:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
 
    /usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
checking for main() in -lssl... no
checking for rb_trap_immediate in ruby.h,rubysig.h... no
checking for rb_thread_blocking_region()... yes
checking for …

oops. they must not have uploaded.

You can send binlog events in realtime from the binary logs with FlexCDC to Kafka (or any system) to take advantage of both worlds.

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Taxonomy upgrade extras:  myenv operation MySQL Operations multi instance consolidation testing upgrade

FromDual has the pleasure to announce the release of the new version 1.2.0 of its popular MySQL, Galera Cluster, MariaDB and Percona Server multi-instance environment MyEnv.

The new MyEnv can be downloaded here.

In the …