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In order to spot database misuse and/or to prove compliance to popular regulations including GDPR, PCI DSS, HIPAA, … database administrators can be required to record and audit database activities. In this fifth episode of the MySQL Security series, we will see what MySQL Enterprise Audit provide to help organizations implement stronger security controls and satisfy regulatory compliance.

There are 3 pillars for a database architecture: Monitoring, Backup / Restore process, High Availability
This blog post is about database High Availability; more precisely about one of the best combo of the moment :
MySQL 5.7 Group Replication : the only native HA solution for MySQL, it’s a Single/Multi-master update everywhere replication plugin for MySQL with built-in automatic distributed recovery, conflict detection and group membership.
ProxySQL 1.4 : probably the best proxy for MySQL.