MySQL Group Replication (GR) is now Generally Available (GA) in MySQL 5.7.17. Matt Lord will be giving us all the details from configuration, ease of setup, operation and management of MySQL GR as well as talking about the features of MySQL InnoDB Cluster.

If you have been following any of the great tutorials by Frederic Descamps at Percona Live and Oracle Open World you will see MySQL GR is the highly available synchronous solution for using InnoDB in MySQL.

Find more information on the release at http://mysqlhighavailability.com/mysql-group-replication-its-in-5-7-17-ga/

Agenda

6:15pm Meet and greet

6:30pm Presentation

7:30pm Q&A

8:00pm wrap-up

RSVP's will close one day before the event to finalize names for the event space.

About the Author

Matt Lord is a Senior Product Manager in the MySQL group at Oracle. He has over 20 years of database and application development experience with MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase using a wide array of programming languages in a variety of UNIX and MS Windows based environments. He has spent the last 13 years working for MySQL, the first year in the Training department and the subsequent 9 years within the Support team, before finally moving to Product Management where one of his primary focuses today is on making MySQL a natively distributed and highly available database that's easy to operate at scale