I just publish a post on the Booking.com blog: http://blog.booking.com/better_crash_safe_replication_for_mysql.html  Spoiler: it uses Binlog Servers.

This is also the opportunity to tell you that I will be at Percona Live London at the beginning of November, and that I will give a talk about Binlog Servers: High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Extreme Read Scaling using Binlog Servers.  I