Almost Perfect Service Discovery and Failover with ProxySQL and Orchestrator

Of course there is no such thing as perfect service discovery, and we will see why in the talk. However, the way ProxySQL is deployed in this case minimizes the risk for split-brains, and this is why I qualify it as almost perfect. But let’s step back a little…

MySQL alone is not a high availability solution. To provide resilience to primary failure, other components need to be integrated with MySQL. At MessageBird, these additional components are ProxySQL and Orchestrator. In this talk, we describe how ProxySQL is architectured to provide close to perfect Service Discovery and how this, combined with Orchestrator, allows for automatic failover. The talk presents the details of the integration of MySQL, ProxySQL and Orchestrator in Google Cloud (and it would be easy to re-implement a similar architecture at other cloud vendors or on-premises). We will also cover lessons learned for the 2 years this architecture has been in production. Come to this talk to learn more about MySQL highavailability, ProxySQL and Orchestrator.

Speakers: Jean-François Gagné – Hubspot, Art van Scheppingen – MessageBird