This post comes as response to 5 Tips for migrating your MySQL server to a Galera Cluster by Henrik Ingo (Galera), which is a good read. This post is a bit lengthy which is one of the reasons why I didn’t just comment on said post.
The Galera talk in London was indeed well crowded, judging from my own chair. I think there is an obvious interest in Galera, as well as a general thirst for information from real-life experience. I am personally very interested in production stories; either “war stories” or “peace stories” – anything to shed more light on the adoption of this technology.
For disclosure, I have not tried Galera myself as yet. Not on production nor on staging machines. But here’s a couple thoughts on Henrik’s post: Continue reading » “Notes on “5 Tips for migrating your MySQL server to a Galera Cluster””