Reliable crash detection and failover with Orchestrator
19 April 3:50 PM - 04:40 PM @ Ballroom A
Experience level:
Intermediate
Duration:
50 minutes conference
Tracks:
Operations and Management
Topics:
MySQL
High Availability
Replication
The nature of MySQL replication implies various crash scenarios of varying availability impact. Orchestrator is an open source project that discovers, manages and recovers your MySQL replication. Attend this talk to learn how Orchestrator detects failures with minimal false positives/negatives, and figures out the best method of recovery even in complex topologies. We will discuss: - Complex topology types and crash scenarios - Common crash detection methods - Configuration based vs. State based recoveries - The complexity of promotion paths - Potential post-recovery limbo states - Flapping & acknowledgements - Visibility & control
Speakers
Shlomi Noach
Senior Infrastructure Engineer, GitHub
Biography:
Shlomi is an engineer and a database geek. He is an active MySQL community member, authors gh-ost, orchestrator, common_schema and other open source tools, and blogs at http://openark.org. Shlomi is recipient of Oracle ACE, Oracle Technologist of the Year, and MySQL Community Member of the Year awards. He works at GitHub on the database infrastructure team.