Codership is pleased to announce a new release of Galera Cluster for MySQL consisting of MySQL-wsrep 5.5.58, 5.6.38, 5.7.20 and new Galera 3.22 library, wsrep API version 25.

NEW FEATURES AND NOTABLE FIXES IN THE GALERA REPLICATION LIBRARY SINCE LAST BINARY RELEASE BY CODERSHIP (3.21):

New features and notable fixes in Galera replication since last binary release

* Reporting last committed write set fixed to respect commit ordering (MW-341)

* GComm socket level error handling improved to avoid backend thread exit
in case of unexpected input from ASIO IO service (GAL-518)

* Race condition fixed in GComm message sending codepath (GAL-520)

* Fix for EVS protocol stall due to exhausted send window setting. This
bug could stall cluster messaging until the next keepalive was sent by
some node, causing …

The white paper shares lessons learned from a careful, component level analysis of China Mobile’s 1000-node OpenStack cloud. They uncovered three major issues in the course of this study, all addressed through OpenStack configuration changes. The result: a more stable and performant China Mobile OpenStack cloud and insights into scale bottlenecks and areas for future work.

Read the full story: Analyzing and Tuning China Mobile’s OpenStack Production Cloud white paper below

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Last year Codership produced a lot of valuable content to help Galera users to get started with Galera and manage Galera. We have gathered  the resources to our website.

Taking Full Advantage of Galera Multi-Master replication video can be watched here.

We have now uploaded Slideshare with many new presentations. Check them out!

The best source of multi-master Galera Cluster help,  Galera Cluster documentation, is being updated constantly.

Helsinki, Finland & London, UK  – January 9th 2017 – Codership, whose Galera Cluster technology brings high availability (HA) and scalability to open source databases worldwide, has seen its technology break the one million download barrier. Codership’s customer roster has grown over 100 percent thanks to the adoption of OpenStack by enterprises and the recent strategic partnership with MariaDB.

Galera has been recognised as the most widely used OpenStack High Availability technology for the second year in a row. According to the OpenStack Survey 2016, one-third of users rely on Galera Clusters running on MariaDB and MySQL.

To cope with an increase of customer demand coming from various industries such as financial services, retail and telecoms, Codership has grown its engineering hires by 50 percent. The new team members will ensure Galera continues to deliver on its mission to …

Description

This webinar will be the second in our series on best practices to follow when using Galera Cluster.

In this part, we will discuss important topics related to multi-master setups:
* Practical considerations when using Galera in a multi-master setup
* Evaluating the characteristics of your database workload
* Preparing your application for multi-master
* Detecting and dealing with transaction conflicts

This is a webinar presented by Codership, the developers and experts of Galera Cluster.

DATE AND TIME FOR USA:  Tuesday, 9-10 AM PST (Pacific ), 13th of December

REGISTER TO USA WEBINAR WITH THIS LINK 

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Software Packaging EngineerJob Description & Main Responsibilities

Codership is looking for a part-time Build and Packaging Engineer. We use Jenkins to build various packages for multiple distros and the engineer will take ownership of the build pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios.

There are plenty of interesting problems to tackle on the job, from crafting .spec files with complex dependencies to automatically testing no-downtime rolling upgrades of a distributed system.

Main Responsibilities

•  take the ownership of and maintain Galera Cluster packages on Linux (.RPM and .DEB) and BSD

• maintain the automatic package building pipeline and extend it to cover additional platforms and testing scenarios

Desired Skills & Requirements

• knowledge of …

Codership’s first Galera Cluster for MySQL webinar “hit a home run” in the world series of webinars.  One of the attendees said: “The Webinar was one of the best I have attended.  The fluff was minimized and the tech presentation hit a home run” .

Take a look Codership’s Galera Cluster® for MySQL Installation and Quick Start recorded webinar

http://galeracluster.com/videos/galera-cluster-installation-and-quick-start/

There will be other  Galera Cluster for MySQL webinars coming from the developers and experts of Galera Cluster, so stay tuned.

Galera, Galera Cluster and Galera Replication are registered trademarks of Codership.

The results in the survey were very favourable to Galera Cluster providing high availability for MySQL and OpenStack components. Galera Cluster with MariaDB received second place, Galera with MySQL fifth place and Galera with Percona Server (Percona XtraDB Cluster) sixth place. Altogether Galera Cluster with three different MySQL variants is clearly the most popular database high availability solution for OpenStack users.

This survey report analyzes respondents who completed or updated the survey during a two-week window in September 2015, and questions represent some modifications from prior surveys in keeping with the evolution of the OpenStack platform. This survey represents a snapshot of 1,315 users and 352 deployments, provided voluntarily. The User Survey is not a market survey and does not express …

Investigation run by Marco Tusa

CONCLUSIONS

MySQL/Galera was able to outperform Aurora in all tests — by execution time, number of transactions, and volumes of rows managed. Also, scaling up the Aurora instance did not have the impact I was expecting. Actually it was still not able to match the EC2 MySQL/Galera performance, with less memory and CPUs.

In light of the tests, the recommendations consider different factors to answer the question, “Which is the best tool for the job?” If HA and very low failover time are the major factors, MySQL with Galera is the right choice”.

READ THE FULL STORY AND INVESTIGATION

Relational databases are ubiquitous in OpenStack: practically every OpenStack service stores its critical metadata in a database, and the MySQL family of databases is the de-facto standard for OpenStack relational data storage. The need for high availability for these relational datastores is obvious. Galera is the default multi-master strongly-consistent replication facility for highly-available relational data in OpenStack. In this webinar, we are joined by independent OpenStack expert Florian Haas to illustrate the ins and outs of Galera for OpenStack.

Speaker bio: Florian Haas is an open source software specialist, experienced technical consultant, seasoned training instructor, and frequent public speaker. He has spoken at conferences like LinuxCon, OSCON, linux.conf.au, the OpenStack Summit, the MySQL Conference and Expo, and countless user and meetup groups across the globe.

Duration: 60 minutes

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