Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Bluefin Payments Bluefin Payments is a Financial Services SaaS company that provides 24/7/365 application availability for their payment gateway and decryption-as-a-service, which are essential to point-of-sale (POS) solutions. Financial Services typically require two or more active data centers to provide their customers with continuous availability along with quick response times. Bluefin Payments uses co-located data centers with active/active replication between each MySQL cluster, which provides a complete, local High Availability and a remote Disaster Recovery solution for more than 350 million financial transactions each month. Watch this webinar replay with Continuent Eero Teerikorpi for a discussion about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers based on a case study of Continuent customer Bluefin Payments, and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters. AGENDA - Continuent Introduction - How to Guarantee Credit Card Transaction Availability With Geo-Distributed Tungsten MySQL Clusters - Continuent Tungsten Solutions & Benefits - Key Benefit Highlight: No MySQL Data Loss - Q&A PRESENTER Eero Teerikorpi - Founder and CEO, Continuent - is a 7-time serial entrepreneur who has more than 30 years of high-tech management and enterprise software experience. Eero has been in the MySQL marketplace virtually since day one, from the early 2000s. Eero has held top management positions at various cross-Atlantic entities (CEO at Alcom Corporation, President at Capslock, Executive Board Member at Esker S.A.) Eero started his career as a Product Manager at Apple Computer in Finland in the mid-80s. Eero also owns and manages a boutique NOET Vineyards producing high-quality dry-farmed Cabernet Sauvignon. Eero is a former Navy officer and still an avid sailor on San Francisco Bay and around the world. Eero is a very active sportsman: a 4+ tennis player, a rookie golfer, a very careful mountain biker, and an experienced (40+ years) skier, both slalom and cross-country.

1. The MySQL Availability Company
CONTINUENT
MySQL HA AND DR
Secure Payment Gateway with Multi-Site MySQL Active/Active Clusters
Eero Teerikorpi, Founder and CEO
September 30, 2020
“Smooth Sailing!”

2. Continuent
“The MySQL Availability Company”

3. Bluefin Use Case – MySQL HA and DR
Bluefin Payment Systems provides the leading
payment security platform that supports
gateways, processors and ISV’s in 32
countries.
Bluefin supports point of sale solutions for
retail, mobile, call center and
kiosk/unattended environments, and secure
Ecommerce technologies.
During this webinar, we’ll discuss how Bluefin,
an early adopter of Continuent’s active/active
MySQL cluster topology, manages payment
processing portal for thousands of world-
wide customers.

4. Eero Teerikorpi
7-Time Serial Entrepreneur
In the MySQL marketplace since the
beginning (2002)
Father of Continuent Tungsten and
Godfather of Galera (XtraDB Cluster)
Galera is based on Continuent’s first (synchronous)
MySQL clustering solution Emic m/cluster
Officer
(and naturally a Gentleman) Finnish Navy
Sailor
Running a Tight Ship!
“Smooth Sailing!”

5. Where Does Continuent Fit In?
Continuent has witnessed the rise of Open
Source and Cloud Computing since 2004.
We have been at the forefront of the market
need for platform-agnostic, highly-available,
globally-scaling, clustered MySQL databases
that are driving businesses to the cloud today.
Continuent is not the biggest. Never.
We are the best at what we do. Always!
Geo-Scale
MySQL
DBaaS
Cloud
Computing
Open
Source
MySQL

6. BLUEFIN USE CASE
Payment Processing Portal for Thousands of World-wide Customers.

7. Bluefin – Payment Security Company
• The leading payment security platform
• Bluefin has been a Continuent customer
since 2012
• Bluefin has multiple Composite Active
Active installations, in Development, Staging
and Production
• PayConex, a payment gateway
• Decryptx, a decryption-as-a-service app,
essential to point-of-sale (POS) solutions in
retail, mobile, call centers and kiosks

8. Question: Why Did Bluefin
Choose Continuent?
As a large payment processing entity in 2012,
what do you think were the key reason(s)
that Bluefin chose to work with Continuent?
• Availability
• Disaster Recovery
• Performance
• Cost
• All of the Above

9. Why Did Bluefin Choose Continuent?
All of the Above

10. Bluefin Challenge
High
Availability
Disaster
Recovery
CostPerformance

11. Bluefin Main Challenge
Need for High Availability and Continuous
Operations
Bluefin has two datacenters, one in
Atlanta, GA and another in Tulsa, OK
Ability to securely process payments
requires one or the other, or preferably
both, data services to be actively available.
Payment applications will by default access
the data services that is the closest to the
originator, but Tungsten Proxy (aka
Tungsten Connector) will route the traffic
automatically to another site during site
level outage or maintenance.

12. Bluefin Challenge – Availability
What Is the Key to Success for Availability?
Tungsten Proxy – The Intelligent MySQL Proxy
Tungsten Proxy allows client MySQL traffic to
be seamlessly routed to another node during
maintenance operations and failovers,
providing maximum control and uptime.
And naturally Tungsten Proxy works
in concert with Tungsten Manager and
Tungsten Replicator to orchestrate the cluster
management and activities.
Manager
Replicator
Manager
Replicator
Manager
Replicator
monitoring&control
Dataservice
Replica ReplicaPrimary

13. Bluefin Challenge – Continuous Operations (DR)
How was the Continuous Operations
achieved?
Active-Active Tungsten Cluster using
managed cross-site replicators
Both of the Tungsten clusters are truly “active"
Provides fast failover in the event of Data
Center outage: application servers in the
“other” DC are already live
Tungsten Connectors are installed on the
application servers
MySQL HA and DR
Two Active/Active Tungsten Clusters

14. Bluefin Tungsten Dashboard –Availability with DR

15. Bluefin Tungsten Dashboard –Availability with DR

16. Bluefin Challenge - Cost
Tungsten Clustering uses an annual
subscription model based on the number of
database nodes.
We do not charge per CPU count or instance
size.
Our pricing is non-linear: the price-per-node
drops significantly as the quantity of nodes
increases.

17. Bluefin Solution – Tungsten Clustering
The benefits Continuent customers achieve with
our Tungsten Clustering solution are:
High-availability, continuous operations, and
performance, at a very reasonable cost level.
Industry’s fastest 24/7 Support by the best MySQL
Replication and Clustering Engineering Team.
Availability
Disaster Recovery
Performance
Cost
24/7 Support

18. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

19. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

20. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard
• Continuous MySQL Operations
• Zero Downtime Maintenance
• Geo-distributed MySQL Clusters
• Multi-Cloud / Hybrid-Cloud MySQL
• Read/Write Splitting with Intelligent Proxy
• Full MySQL Support, No App Changes

21. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

22. Continuent Products
• High performant Real-Time replication
• Multiple Heterogeneous Targets
• AWS Aurora / RDS
• AWS Redshift
• HPE Vertica
• Hadoop
• Kafka
• and many more
• Fan-in / Fan-Out / Primary-Primary
• Flexible, Advanced Filtering
• Available as an AMI through Amazon
Marketplace (with free 14-day trial)
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

23. Continuent Products
• Tungsten Clustering
• Tungsten Replicator
• Tungsten Dashboard

24. Tungsten Key Benefits
Industry Best 24/7 MySQL Customer Service
• Highly Qualified 24/7 support. Our support team member have 15 or more years of MySQL DBA and
Site Reliability Experience
• 24/7 support comes with 1-hour SLA, with response times for urgent requests averaging less than 3
minutes
• MySQL uptime measured in months or years
Cost Savings
• Use the free open-source MySQL for your business-critical needs
• Optimize costs by selecting the most cost-effective cloud environment(s) at any given time
• Eliminate downtime risks and their associated costs, including during maintenance operations (zero-
downtime maintenance operations)
• Reduce DBA time spent on admin and recovery operations, lowering your costs while increasing
reliability.

25. Tungsten Key Benefits
Continuous MySQL Operations
• MySQL High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution, which provides redundancy within and
across data centers
• Immediate failover for maximum availability and data protection of business-critical MySQL
applications
• Reduce MySQL recovery time from hours or days to mere seconds
• Dashboard provides graphical view and management of all globally distributed MySQL clusters
Zero Downtime MySQL
• Site-level and cross-site failover ensures application availability
• Upgrade hardware, software and data without taking applications offline
• MySQL compatibility means seamless migration of your data and applications

26. Geo-Scale MySQL
Tungsten Key Benefits
• Load-balance MySQL read operations across multiple slaves, locally and globally
• Geo-distributed MySQL clusters bring data close to your application users for faster response times
• Easily add more MySQL clusters as needed for unlimited scaling, both locally or across the globe
Hybrid-Cloud and Multi-Cloud MySQL
• Deploy in the cloud, VM and bare metal environments
• Mix-and-match on-premises, private and public clouds (incl. Amazon AWS, Google Cloud and
Microsoft Azure)
• Easy, seamless migration from cloud to cloud to avoid vendor lock-in in any specific cloud provider
• Withstand node, data center, zone or region failures or outages

27. Tungsten Key Benefits
Intelligent MySQL Proxy
• Provides intelligent traffic routing to a valid MySQL Primary, locally and globally
• Scale read queries via query inspection and other methods
• Application and active users do not disconnect during MySQL master failover events
Most Advanced MySQL Replication
• Filter and transform your data in-flight
• No more ETL, get real-time data feeds into your analytics
• Replicate directly into popular analytic repositories: AWS RedShift, Hadoop (HDFS), Kafka and Vertica
• Unlimited real-time transactional data transfer to eliminate escalating replication cost of ETL-based
alternatives

28. Tungsten Key Benefits
Full MySQL Support, No Application Changes
• Deploy and Configure MySQL clusters in minutes
• Not just a ‘MySQL-compatible” solution, but fully MySQL-compliant. Use any of your off-the-shelf
MySQL, MariaDB and Percona Server versions
• Support for all modern MySQL (5.x through 8.x) and MariaDB (5.x and 10.x) versions and features
• SSL support for all in-flight traffic
• Native MySQL support means easy and complete migration of your data and applications

29. Poll Question: Are You Looking for
MySQL HA/DR?
• Yes, we're actively investigating a MySQL Availability solution
• Yes, we have a MySQL HA/DR in place, but we are not happy with it
• No, we already have a MySQL HA/DR solution we are happy with
• Not right now, but it is in our future plans
• No, I'm here to educate myself

30. Proven Continuent Team
• Our core team has been building data availability solutions since 2004
• We have an expert team of data replication, database connectivity and database cluster management
engineers
• We have a world-class support team
• Each member with 20 or more years of operational database experience
• Our team is available to respond effectively and immediately to our customers’ needs
• Average response time for an urgent support request less than 3 minutes

31. Proven Solutions
Our tightly-integrated, complete and fully tested solutions reliably handle billions of transactions per
day and support businesses with billions of dollars in combined revenue:

32. Why Choose Continuent
Customer Satisfaction
during the most recent customer survey
Customer Renewal Rate
many multi-year subscription renewals
Average Response Time
in minutes for urgent customer support
cases
Average Customer
Life-Span
years using Continuent solutions

33. In Summary
• The MySQL Availability Company
• Established in 2004
• Customers Industries include
• SaaS
• eCommerce
• Finance
• Telco
• Online Gaming
• Business-critical MySQL apps
• From Startup to Enterprise companies
2004 Continuent Established
2009 3rd Generation Continuent Tungsten, the first
fully MySQL-compliant clustering solution
2014 VMware Acquired Continuent to build
DBaaS for vCloud Air
2016 “New” Continuent breaks away from VMware
(after they abandoned vCloud Air)
2017 Major Tungsten release (v5) with hardened
security features
2018 Tungsten v6 ships with major multi-site
clustering changes
2020 Marketo is the first 10th anniversary Tungsten
customer (grown from 4 clusters to over 100
clusters)
202x The Future….is in the Cloud – Tungsten Cloud

34. Q&A
“Smooth Sailing!”

35. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
continuent.com
The MySQL Availability Company
Eero Teerikorpi
September 30, 2020