Diancheng Wang (Alibaba Cloud), Guangchao Bai (Alibaba Cloud) delivers the talk, "How to make MySQL work with Raft", on DAY 1 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, 4/24, at Santa Clara, CA.

For the cloud environment, we hope MySQL cluster can do the failover and choose the new master node by the instance-self automatically, without third-party middleware. So we built the Raft protocol inside MySQL.
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Luis Soares (Oracle) delivers the talk, "MySQL Replication: What's new in MySQL 5.7 and MySQL 8 ", on DAY 1 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, 4/24, at Santa Clara, CA.

The latest developments and the enticing roadmap, show that MySQL Replication is addressing requirements in different areas such as operations, flexibility, elasticity, automation and seamless scale-out. Moreover, new replication features...

Bill Karwin (Square) delivers the talk, "How to Use JSON in MySQL Wrong", on DAY 1 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, 4/24, at Santa Clara, CA.

The JSON data type and functions that support it comprise one of the most interesting features introduced in MySQL 5.7 for application developers. But no feature is a "Golden Hammer." We need to apply a little expertise to get the best result and avoid misusing it....

Rodrigo Medeiros (DataCore) delivers the talk, "Bringing Multi-threading to the I/O Level", on DAY 1 of the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2018, 4/24, at Santa Clara, CA.

Many administrators responsible for databases confront two clashing phenomena:

· Data is coming at increasingly higher rates (from an expanding number of sources)
· The time required to process transactions and analyze data is rapidly...