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Watch the replay of our Geo-Scale MySQL webinar: Guaranteed Global Game Access for Hundreds of Millions of Players Worldwide - Cloud-Based Active/Passive Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Riot Games.

This is the kick-off of our Tungsten MySQL Use Case Webinar Series presented by Continuent CEO Eero Teerikorpi. Our first three webinars offer a choice of topics ranging from Global MySQL Availability, MySQL Data Protection to MySQL High Availability.

We’re excited to announce our new Continuent Tungsten Clustering MySQL Use Case Webinar Series for 2020 with Eero Teerikorpi, Founder & CEO of Continuent.

Watch our latest on-demand webinar: Deploying Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Applications With Ultimate MySQL Availability. Learn about the pros and cons of single cloud region vs multi-region cloud deployments … and more.

This blog explores the best practices for deploying Tungsten Clustering for MySQL across Availability Zones, outlining the approaches for best high availability, fast response times, and load balancing recommendations.

People approach Continuent for many reasons, including: MySQL Continuous Operations: their business is using MySQL for business-critical applications that require zero downtime, including for maintenance updates MySQL Performance: their application performance and user experience are suffering due to a faltering MySQL backend MySQL Scaling and geo-scaling: they're scaling up and taking prudent preventative measures to lay a strong foundation based on anticipated growth, within region, cross the regions and

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).

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.

This is the first in a series of use case blogs. It discusses the concept of ‘Geo-scale MySQL’ - or how to build a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end capable of serving hundreds of user accounts.

The Slow Software Movement is spreading with SaaS companies going global...and their software is the furthest from “slow.” In this blog, a Customer Success Manager at Continuent writes about some observations in her five years of listening to customers and prospects.

This blog explains data replication and clustering in a way that anybody can understand.

Overview

Continuent has traditionally had a relaxed policy about Linux platform support for customers using our products.

While it is possible to install and run Continuent Tungsten products (i.e. Cluster/Replicator/etc.) inside Docker containers, there are many reasons why this is not a good idea.