All posts by Miguel Araújo

About Miguel Araújo

Miguel Araújo is a Principal Software Engineer on the MySQL Team, at Oracle. He's the Tech Lead of the AdminAPI, core component of MySQL InnoDB Cluster, at the MySQL Shell team. In the past, he has worked on different projects and teams, mostly related to Middleware and High-Availability. He has a Computer Science Engineering degree and Master's degree, from the University of Minho, Portugal, where he was also a researcher. His backgrounds are on distributed systems, scalability, database replication and high-availability. He is based in Portugal.

MySQL InnoDB Cluster – Changing cluster options “live”

DevOps, High Availability, MySQL, Shell

As listed in the release announcement of the latest MySQL InnoDB Cluster release, 8.0.14 brings exciting new features! This blog post integrates a series detailing every single new feature added. We’ll follow up now with two very desired and useful features: “Checking current cluster configuration options” and “Changing cluster members or global cluster options ‘live'”.…

MySQL InnoDB Cluster – What’s new in the 8.0.13 (GA) release

DevOps, High Availability, MySQL, Router, Shell

The MySQL Development Team is very happy to announce the second 8.0 Maintenance Release of InnoDB Cluster!

In addition to bug fixes, 8.0.13 brings some new exciting features:

  • Defining the next primary instance “in line”
  • Defining the behavior of a server whenever it drops out of the cluster
  • Improved command line integration for DevOps type usage

Here are the highlights of this release!…

MySQL InnoDB Cluster 8.0 – A Hands-on Tutorial

High Availability, MySQL

MySQL InnoDB Cluster has proven with the first GA release its potential as the native out-of-the-box HA solution for MySQL. With the second GA release, usability, stability and flexibility were greatly improved as described in the previous blog post.

This tutorial aims to show how does a typical InnoDB cluster setup look like and how that setup even became simpler and more effective as before.…

MySQL InnoDB Cluster 8.0 GA is Available Now!

High Availability, MySQL

The MySQL Development Team is proud and happy to announce the General Availability release of InnoDB Cluster 8.0! This is an extremely exciting release of our integrated, native, full stack High Availability (HA) solution for MySQL.

InnoDB Cluster provides an out-of-the-box and easy to use built-in HA and Scaling solution for MySQL by tightly integrating the following GA components:

  • MySQL 8.0.11+ Servers with Group Replication, to provide the data replication mechanism within InnoDB clusters, ensuring fault tolerance, automated failover, and elasticity.
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MySQL InnoDB Cluster – What’s New in the Release Candidate

MySQL

We carefully listened to the feedback we got from the last preview release and incorporated many of the suggested changes. On top of that, we have fixed several bugs and extended existing functionalities.

Here are the highlights of this release!

MySQL Shell / X AdminAPI

We keep aiming at the goal of hiding the complexity associated with configuring and managing H/A setups, but on top of that, we see usability as a great priority.…