Avoiding pain when operating in the Cloud
Lessons from running production workloads on AWS, Azure and GCP, and how to avoid the common traps.
Older talks
Slides from conference talks I gave before StatefulOps: MySQL clustering, running databases in the cloud, and Puppet.
Changing the Engine While in Flight
Migrating Continuent's test, dev and QA systems into VMware's internal vSphere cluster without disrupting product launches.
Why Puppet Can Save Your Sanity
Using Puppet to make one or two Tungsten cluster deployments a week repeatable.
Deploying Database Clusters in the Cloud
How deploying MySQL clusters changes when you move from on-premise hardware to the cloud.
Introduction to Tungsten Replicator
The open source drop-in replacement for MySQL replication: global transaction IDs, multi-master, fan-in and heterogeneous replication.
Surviving an Amazon Outage
Reviewing Continuent's AWS infrastructure after the 2012 outages, and the move to a multi-cloud deployment.