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Percona gives us room to work on our own AI-assisted projects, and I used mine to fix a problem I kept running into. Every time I wanted to try a new database feature, debug something tricky, or reproduce a customer issue, I ended up rebuilding much of the same infrastructure: DNS, TLS, Docker networking, database topologies, users and test data. Over the years, I wrote scripts to automate this but I still found myself copying and pasting post-installation steps from one lab to the next.

That repetition is what turned into DBCanvas, a self-hosted lab for designing, deploying, operating, and stress-testing multi-node database stacks on my own machine. Just design a topology on a canvas, click Deploy, and get real running nodes connected to the services and supporting infrastructure your test requires. Then, use the tools built into it or third party tools to load those …

Since summer 2017, Amazon RDS supports encryption at rest using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for db.t2.small and db.t2.medium database instances, making the feature now available to virtually every instance class and type.

Unless you are running Previous Generation DB Instances or you can only afford to run a db.t2.micro, every other instance class now supports native encryption at rest using KMS. As for the Amazon documentation:

Encryption on smaller T2 database instances is useful for development and test use cases, where you want the environment to have identical security …

Hi all, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere support to MySQL, like we described in the Hello World post.

We are very proud to present the eighth preview release of MySQL Group Replication plugin, based on MySQL Server 5.7.15.…

In the previous releases of the Group Replication plugin for MySQL we introduced support for several operating systems like Mac OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. But why stop there? So here it is, the 0.7.0 version of Group Replication is now also available on Windows!…

Hi all, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the sixth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.7.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.10, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…

Overview

Redundancy is key to providing resilience to failures, and in Fabric 1.6.2 (now available on MySQL Labs), we have introduced the possibility to start multiple MySQL Fabric instances that are kept consistent through a replicated state machine.

The state machine replication guarantees that all machines (i.e.…

Hi all, keeping our steady release cycle, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the fifth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.6.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.9, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…

Last week we released MySQL Router into our Labs and we need to provide a few extra details on how to actually use it.

Requirements

• A modern OS which comes with a compiler supporting C++11. For example, Ubuntu 14.04 and later, Oracle Linux 7, OS X 10.10.

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The MySQL team are busily working on improving ways to use MySQL in scalable highly available systems. As most of you are already aware, the MySQL Group Replication project is progressing at full speed. Indeed, we just got preview release 0.5 out, while Fabric 1.5.6 was just released and work is ongoing for the Fabric 1.6 release.…

Hi all, keeping our steady release cycle, it is time again to do another preview release of MySQL Group Replication, the plugin that brings multi-master update everywhere to MySQL, like we described in Hello World post.

We are very proud to do the fourth preview release of MySQL Group Replication, version 0.5.0 based on MySQL Server 5.7.8, which introduces new exciting features, please enjoy the highlights!…