While I was working on my grFailOver POC, I have also done some additional parallel testing. One of them was to see how online DDL is executed inside a Group Replication cluster.
The online DDL feature provides support for instant and in-place table alterations and concurrent DML. Checking the Group Replication (GR) official documentation, I […]
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The Problem
There are few things your data does not like. One is water and another is fire. Well, guess what:
If you think that everything will be fine after all, take a look:
Given my ISP had part of its management infrastructure on OVH, they had been impacted by the incident.
As […]
This blog provides high availability (HA) guidelines using group replication architecture and deployment recommendations in MySQL, based on our best practices.
Every architecture and deployment depends on the customer requirements and application demands for high availability and the estimated level of usage. For example, using high read or high write applications, or both, with a […]
Chasing bugs can be a tedious task, and multi-threaded software doesn’t make it any easier. Threads will be scheduled at different times, instructions will not have deterministic results, and in order for one to reproduce a particular issue, it might require the exact same threads, doing the exact same work, at the exact same […]
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So your MySQL server has crashed. What do you do now? When a server is down, in my opinion, there are two steps that are essential and both are extremely important and neither should be neglected:
Save diagnostic information for determining the root cause analysis (RCA).
Get the server back up and running.
Too many people rush […]
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