Failover, or not Failover, that is the question.
Replication and High Availability Strategies
25 April 12:50pm - 13:40pm @ Ballroom B
Building a High-Availability database system is hard. It's not enough to just provide a pair of redundant servers, you also need to make the data redundant, while protecting data integrity. A long standing discussion item in this context is the difficulty of implementing the failover. Should you use automated failover or is it wiser to use manual failover? If you use an active-active cluster then you have no failover, how about that?
In this talk we will cover this problem space from all angles:
Do you failover or not failover?
Fast failover or slow failover?
Automated failover or manual failover?
With automated failover, are you being careful or careless about it?
In some systems there is no failover!
Speakers
Massimo Brignoli
Product Manager, SkySQL AB
Biography:
Engineering Manager for the biggest italian web portals, pioneer of Internet in Italy and specialized in massive scalability architectures and in search engines, he joined MySQL in 2007 as sales consultant for mission critical and high available environments in the telecom market. Massimo now is product manager in SkySQL.
Henrik Ingo
Senior Performance Architect, Nokia
Biography:
Henrik works as Senior Performance Architect at Nokia, where he is mostly interested in the performance of MySQL and Galera, but also other SQL and NoSQL databases. He previously worked as Chief Operating Officer at Monty Program and as a Sales Engineer at Sun Microsystems, selling MariaDB, MySQL and MySQL Cluster technologies while being closely in touch with their respective development teams. He is the author of the book "Open Life: The Philosophy of Open Source (http://openlife.cc), fan of Open Source in general and contributor to Drupal in particular. Since 2010 Henrik co-organizes the MySQL Community Awards, a tradition which will again take place as part of the 2013 MySQL Conference and Expo (http://openlife.cc/blogs/2012/february/mysql-hall-fame).
