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Our colleague Chris Parker covers a few of the approaches he found that made the transition of working in an office to working from home easier for him (something that a lot of us experience at the moment). He also takes a look at the technical side and what we at Continuent use to conduct our day to day business and Keep the Lights on. Including a Great Bake Off!

The Tungsten Connector is an intelligent MySQL proxy that provides key high-availability and read-scaling features. This includes the ability to route MySQL queries by inspecting them in-flight.

For this next ‘multi-master MySQL’ blog in our Continuent MySQL Case Study series, we’re focussing on Financial Services Saas providers.

This next blog in our Continuent MySQL Case Study series is a sub-series on the topic of ‘multi-master MySQL’, in which we cover three multi-master MySQL use cases focusing on e-commerce to start with, financial services and telecommunications.

Watch the replay of this webinar hosted by Database Trends & Technologies (DBTA) and presented by Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi: How to build a $10M SaaS business into a $6B Unicorn with MySQL and Continuent Tungsten.

In this MySQL Case Study blog we look at a customer of ours who were able to grow their SaaS business from tens of customers to thousands of enterprise customers once they achieved continuous MySQL operations with Continuent Tungsten.

This blog article discusses why and how we use Ansible (automation tool for pre-configuring MySQL servers) for Tungsten purposes at Continuent, including a step by step description on how to use Ansible (including source code).

Make It Smarter: Tuning MySQL Client Request Routing for Tungsten Connector

Continuent is pleased to announce the 6.1.3 releases of its Tungsten Clustering and Tungsten Replicator software products for MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server, which introduces compatibility with MongoDB Atlas (amongst other things).

This case study blog discusses how one of our customers, a global SaaS provider for e-signature services, who used to run MySQL master/slave clusters, initially using native MySQL replication started using Tungsten Clustering; enabling them to deploy hybrid-cloud MySQL clusters for continuous operations and migration purposes, while preventing lock-in to any specific cloud vendor.

First we went through an install of a simple three-node cluster using allotted AWS ec2 instances. We created the directories and database users and got the Tungsten Clustering software installed and up-and-running. Then we covered cluster control operations using cctrl, like switch and recover, as well as replicator techniques using trepctl. Some other items on the agenda included an overview of the latest release (which came out last week), replication stages and filters, monitoring, and various useful configurations and options. In Day 2 we learned about backups, and did a deep dive into the various Connector methods and some of their pros and cons.

Watch our new on-demand webinar: “An introduction to database proxies (for MySQL)”. From a simple database connectivity scenario all the way through to advanced database connectivity setups and proxy functionalities, this webinar provides a solid introduction to database proxies (for MySQL).