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Linux Kernel bug hunting

The story starts with a message on our workplace chat:

Introducing Shipper

Customizable multi-cluster rollouts for Kubernetes

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…

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…

Evaluating MySQL Parallel Replication Part 4: More Benchmarks in Production

Parallel replication is a highly-expected feature of MySQL available in MariaDB 10.0 and in MySQL 5.7. We already presented…