How to manage fast growing databases

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Dear Polyglots & Open Source Database Enthusiasts,

Please join us for a meet-up on April 10th 2018. We have 2 great talks lined up for you. First Krzysztof Książek – Senior Support Engineer at Severalnines- will kick off and give you an exstensive insight into the vast array of open source options to load balance your MySQL databases. Furthermore we are very pleased that Zeger Knops- Head of Technology VidaXL has agreed to share his experiences with Database Automation within the fast growing international platform of VidaXL. Agenda:

18:00 - 18:25: Arrival at the Location & Drinks
18:25 – 18.30: Welcome by organisers
18:30 - 19:15: Krzysztof Książek - Senior Support Engineer Severalnines
19:15 - 20:00 Zeger Knops – Head of Business Technology VidaXL

Program:

Krzysztof Książek - Senior Support Engineer Severalnines
MySQL Load Balancers - MaxScale, ProxySQL, HAProxy, MySQL Router & nginx - a close-up look

Load balancing MySQL connections and queries using HAProxy has been popular in the past years. Recently however, we have seen the arrival of MaxScale, MySQL Router, ProxySQL and now also Nginx as a reverse proxy.For which use cases do you use them and how well do they integrate in your environment? This session aims to give a solid grounding in load balancer technologies for MySQL and MariaDB. We will review the main open-source options available: from application connectors (php-mysqlnd, jdbc), TCP reverse proxies (HAProxy, Keepalived, Nginx) and SQL-aware load balancers (MaxScale, ProxySQL, MySQL Router) and take a look into the best practices for backend health checks to ensure load balanced connections are routed to the correct nodes in several MySQL clustering topologies. You'll gain a good understanding of how the different options compare, and enough knowledge to decide which ones to explore further.

19:15 - 20:00 Zeger Knops – Head of Business Technology VidaXL
Leveraging database automation software in a fast paced international global e-commerce environment VidaXL is a rapidly growing international online retailer with is base in the Netherlands. Currently the company operates with 1000 employees 29 local webshops in Europe, US and Austriala. Each business day it processes 15000 orders per day for their 2,5 mio customers world wide. VidaXL is in the process of expanding its product catalogue to over 10,000,000 items within a short period of time. Scaling from thousands to millions of products is a giant leap and required a strong infrastructure foundation and high performing and high available (MySQL and MongoDB) databases. To achieve this VidaXL has opted for database management automation software (ClusterControl) to achieve that In his talk Zeger will share his experience with you.

Location

This meetup will be held at the magnificent circulair building Circl in Amsterdam. In the Eventspace where this event will take place at Circl you will get a welcome drink, before the start of this meetup.

Circl is very easy to reach. From the Amsterdam Zuid train station you can walk to Circl in a few minutes. At station Amsterdam Zuid also stop metro line 51, metro line 50 and tram 5. Also bus number 62 stops nearby, stop Hogewerf.

Travelling by car? The address of Circl is Gustav Mahlerplein 1B. Parking is possible at Q-Park Mahler (Aaron Coplandstraat 8, Amsterdam) or Q-Park Symphony (Leo Smitstraat 4, Amsterdam).

More information about the unique fully circulair building Circl you can find here.

We are looking forward meeting you on Tuesday April 10th in Amsterdam