Do you think Quality Assurance (QA) is more than the simplistic view of bug hunting? Do you believe that QA is important to the entire software development lifecycle and want to focus on failure testing, process and performance control, as well as best practice adoption? Do you enjoy doing performance benchmarks and noticing regressions? Do you like to write about it, from internal reports to external blog posts?

Then why not take up a challenge at Codership, the makers of Galera Cluster, as we are looking for a Galera Cluster QA Engineer (job description at link).

We’re looking for someone who is able to work remotely, join a company meeting at least once per year, be comfortable with the use of Slack and email (asynchronous communication, for developing our virtually synchronous replication solution!), but most importantly enjoy testing the …

Do you want to run Galera Cluster in the Microsoft cloud? Why not learn to setup a 3-node Galera Cluster using Microsoft Azure Compute Virtual Machines, and run it yourself. In this webinar, we will cover the steps to do this, with a demonstration of how easy it is for you to do.

In addition, we will cover why you may want to run a 3-node (or more) Galera Cluster (active-active multi-master clusters) instead of (or in addition to) using Azure Database for MySQL or MariaDB. We will also cover cost comparisons. 

Join us and learn about storage options, backup & recovery, as well as monitoring & metrics options for the “roll your own Galera Cluster” in Azure.

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Through Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can create virtual servers (i.e., instances). You can install database and Galera software on them. In this article, we’ll create three nodes, the minimum recommended for a healthy cluster, and configure them to use Galera Cluster.

Incidentally, there is a more detailed version of this article in the Tutorial section of our Library.

Assumptions & Preparation

We’re assuming you have an AWS account and know the basics of the EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) platform.

To access the nodes, you’ll need an encryption key. Create a new one specifically for Galera, using a tool such as ssh-keygen. Add that key to AWS, under Key Pairs.

Creating AWS Instances

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Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.44-25.26 and MySQL-wsrep 5.7.26-25.18 with a new Galera Replication library 3.27 (release notes, download), implementing wsrep API version 25. This release incorporates all changes into MySQL 5.6.44 (release notes, download) and MySQL 5.7.26 (release notes, …

Congratulations to Team MariaDB at MariaDB Corporation and MariaDB Foundation for releasing MariaDB 10.4.6 as Generally Available (GA) last week on 18 June 2019. This release is very exciting for Galera Cluster users as it comes with Galera 4 (it is now the first server to come with it!), with Galera wsrep library version 26.4.2.

What can Galera Cluster users expect from MariaDB 10.4? Some high level features include:

• Streaming replication — a huge boost to large transaction support, since the node breaks transactions into fragments, replicates and certifies it across all secondary nodes while the transaction is still in progress. Read more about it in our dedicated documentation on streaming replication as well …

After a short hiatus, we hope to meet and see you at Percona Live Austin 2019 (28-30 May 2019), as we have sponsored the event and have a booth in the expo hall, in addition to conducting some talks.

Our CEO and Co-Founder, Seppo Jaakola will make a presentation entitled, Galera Cluster New Features, in the Texas 5 room, on Wednesday from 11.55 a.m. to 12.45 p.m. It will be a very interesting talk as Galera Cluster 4 features have made there way into MariaDB Server 10.4. You will also hear a little about when Codership, the engineers and makers of Galera Cluster, will provide a MySQL version.

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Codership is pleased to announce a new Generally Available (GA) release of Galera Cluster for MySQL 5.6 and 5.7, consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.6.43 and MySQL-wsrep 5.7.25 with a new Galera Replication library 3.26 (release notes, download), implementing wsrep API version 25. This release incorporates all changes to MySQL 5.6.43 (release notes, download) and 5.7.25 respectively (release notes, …

Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Replication library 3.25, implementing wsrep API version 25. The new release includes many bug fixes and fixes to all security issues mentioned in the Oracle Critical Patch Update Advisory – October 2018

As always, Galera Cluster is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES, as well as FreeBSD. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the easy deployment and upgrade of Galera Cluster nodes.

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.7.24, MySQL 5.6.42 and MySQL 5.5.62.

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Codership is pleased to announce the release of Galera Replication library 3.24, implementing wsrep API version 25.  The new release includes improved deadlock error management with foreign keys and security fixes. As always, Galera Cluster is now available as targeted packages and package repositories for a number of Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Red Hat, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE and SLES, as well as FreeBSD. Obtaining packages using a package repository removes the need to download individual files and facilitates the easy deployment and upgrade of Galera Cluster nodes.

This release incorporates all changes up to MySQL 5.7.23, MySQL 5.6.41 and MySQL 5.5.61.

Galera Replication Library 3.24
New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release by Codership (3.23)

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Galera Cluster is the leading high availability solution for MySQL and MariaDB. We are always looking for bright and driven people who have a passion for technology, especially for database replication and clustering. If you are interested in challenging work, being part of a innovative team and world’s leading MySQL clustering company-then Codership is right place for you!  This is a remote job.

Job Description and Responsibilities

• Write Galera Cluster technical marketing material (blogs, white papers, benchmarks)
• Prepare presentations and present at webinars and conferences
• Be active in social media channels and forums
• Consult customers for Galera Cluster best practices
• Pre-sales support
• Interface with the development team to provide user feedback
• Assist in writing Galera documentation

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