---
title: "MySQL High Availability at GitHub"
publication: "DB Weekly"
issue: 209
published_at: "2018-06-22"
canonical_url: "https://dbweekly.com/issues/209"
---

This week's database news       

#209 — June 22, 2018 

[Read on the Web](https://dbweekly.com/issues/209)   

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[MySQL High Availability at GitHub](https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-github/) — GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all non-git related things so it’s a critical piece of infrastructure that needs to stay up. This post digs _deep_ on how they keep MySQL highly available. 

Shlomi Noach (GitHub)   

[Streaming SQL for Real-Time Analytics](https://www.datanami.com/2018/06/15/streaming-sql-for-real-time-analytics/) — Streaming analytics will be a $13.7 billion market by 2021 according to one B2B research firm. Here’s a basic overview of the concepts behind the scenes. 

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[6 Things DBAs Should Know About GDPR](http://info.enterprisedb.com/GDPR-for-DBA.html?_ga=2.29539831.931705756.1529068123-2130478150.1505400020) — Learn more about GDPR with these 6 articles and 5 simple steps. Read the tech guide now. 

EnterpriseDB sponsor   

[Databases in 2018: The State of the Developer Ecosystem](https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018/databases/) — The results of a survey of 6000 developers on what databases they use or are looking to use. MySQL and PostgreSQL lead the way here. 

Jetbrains   

[The Impact of Virtualization on Your Database](https://www.scylladb.com/2018/06/21/impact-virtualization-database/) — Explores the main differences between AWS EC2’s i3.16xlarge and i3.metal instances, and asks whether removing the virtualization layer can bring about better performance. 

Glauber Costa   

[Crate.io Announces $11 Million Series A Round](https://crate.io/a/announcing-crates-11-million-series-a-round/) — Over 30 people are working on CrateDB, a distributed SQL database designed for real-time analysis. Crate also announced [Crate MDP](https://crate.io/products/cratedb-cloud/), a machine data platform built on CrateDB 3.0. 

CrateDB   

[Twitter Meets TensorFlow](https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2018/twittertensorflow.html) — Twitter explains how they’re bringing machine learning to their vast dataset via a modeling/testing/serving framework called Deepbird. 

Nicholas Léonard and Cibele Montez Halasz   

[How to Optimize the Performance of MongoDB](https://severalnines.com/blog/how-optimize-performance-mongodb) — Tips and tricks to optimize performance, particularly around schema design, indexing, replication lag and query design. 

Onyancha Brian Henry   

[Webinar: A Guide to MySQL & MariaDB Performance Tuning](https://severalnines.com/resources/webinars/our-guide-mysql-mariadb-performance-tuning?utm_campaign=Performance_Tuning_Campaign_JUNE_2018&utm_content=webinar&utm_medium=Paid_Search&utm_source=banner) — Learn how to get the most out of your database environment. 

Severalnines sponsor   

[How to Benchmark Performance of MySQL and MariaDB with SysBench](https://severalnines.com/blog/how-benchmark-performance-mysql-mariadb-using-sysbench) — Gives a good background of [sysbench](https://github.com/akopytov/sysbench), and how you can use it to benchmark MySQL and MariaDB. 

Krzysztof Ksiazek   

[Decoding MongoDB's Error Logs](https://severalnines.com/blog/decoding-mongodb-error-logs) — A high-level introduction to the MongoDB error logs, where to find them and how to understand common issues. 

Akash Kathiriya   

▶[A Look at Gimel, PayPal’s Analytics Data Platform](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/gimel-paypal?utm_term=global) — Deepak Chandramouli demos Gimel, a unified analytics data platform which provides access to any storage through a single unified data API and SQL. 

InfoQ   

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mongodb sponsor   

[Bistro: A Lightweight Column-Oriented Data Processing Engine](https://github.com/asavinov/bistro) 

Alexandr Savinov   

[Redis Lua Scripting Security Vulnerabilities Fixed](http://antirez.com/news/119) — An explanation of the bug and problems involved. Redis versions 3.2.12, 4.0.10, and 5.0-rc2 have been released to counter the issue. 

Salvatore Sanfilippo         

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