Webinars

Our webinars aim to provide useful information for MySQL users and Continuent customers and discuss topics focussed on achieving continuous operations for business-critical MySQL applications.

Tungsten Connector / Proxy – The Secret Sauce Behind Zero-Downtime MySQL Maintenance And Multi-Site Clusters

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Learn About Tungsten Connector / Proxy Routing Patterns Inside a Composite Cluster

Tungsten Connector / Proxy is truly the secret sauce for the Tungsten Clustering solution. Watch this webinar to learn how the Tungsten Connector enables zero-downtime MySQL maintenance via the manual switch operation, and gain an understanding of the various configuration options for doing local reads in remote composite clusters.

Agenda

Review the cluster architecture
Understand the role of the Connector
Describe Connector deployment best practices (app, dedicated with lb, db with lb)
Explore zero-downtime MySQL maintenance using the manual role switch procedure
Learn about Connector routing patterns inside a composite cluster
Illustrate a manual site switch
Explain read affinity and the vast performance improvement of local reads
Examine Connector multi-cluster support

Presenter

Eric M. Stone

COO and VP of Product Management, Continuent

Eric is a veteran of fast-paced, large-scale enterprise environments with 40 years of Information Technology experience. With a focus on HA/DR, from building data centers and trading floors to world-wide deployments, Eric has architected, coded, deployed and administered systems for a wide variety of disparate customers, from Fortune 500 financial institutions to SMB’s.