How Reliability and Product Teams Collaborate at Booking.com

Incidents, fixes, and the day after

Incidents are like presents: You love them as long as you don’t…

Linux Kernel bug hunting

The story starts with a message on our workplace chat:

Troubleshooting: A journey into the unknown

Troubleshooting is a journey. It’s a long, unpredictable trek, one where you know the start and the end points but have zero knowledge about the actual path you…

Better Parallel Replication for MySQL

Parallel replication is a much-expected feature of MySQL. It’s available in MariaDB 10.0 and in MySQL 5.7. Yet, both lose efficiency when replicating through…

Introducing Shipper

Customizable multi-cluster rollouts for Kubernetes

Abstracting Binlog Servers and MySQL Master Promotion without Reconfiguring all Slaves

In a MySQL replication deployment, the master is a single point of failure. To recover after the failure of this…