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+# MaxScale by MariaDB Corporation
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale.svg?branch=develop)](https://travis-ci.org/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale)
+
+The MariaDB Corporation MaxScale is an intelligent proxy that allows
+forwarding of database statements to one or more database servers using
+complex rules, a semantic understanding of the database statements and the
+roles of the various servers within the backend cluster of databases.
+
+MaxScale is designed to provide load balancing and high availability
+functionality transparently to the applications. In addition it provides
+a highly scalable and flexible architecture, with plugin components to
+support different protocols and routing decisions.
+
+MaxScale is implemented in C and makes extensive use of the
+asynchronous I/O capabilities of the Linux operating system. The epoll
+system is used to provide the event driven framework for the input and
+output via sockets.
+
+The protocols are implemented as external shared object modules which
+can be loaded at runtime. These modules support a fixed interface,
+communicating the entries points via a structure consisting of a set of
+function pointers. This structure is called the "module object".
+
+The code that routes the queries to the database servers is also loaded
+as external shared objects and are referred to as routing modules.
+
+An Google Group exists for MaxScale that can be used to discuss ideas,
+issues and communicate with the MaxScale community.
+
+- Email: maxscale@googlegroups.com
+- Forum: http://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maxscale
+
+Please report all feature requests, improvements and bugs in the [MariaDB Jira](https://jira.mariadb.org/projects/MXS/issues).
+
+# Documentation
+
+For information about installing and using MaxScale, please refer to the
+documentation. The official documentation can be found on the
+[MariaDB Knowledge Base](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/maxscale/).
+
+- [MariaDB MaxScale 2.0 Documentation](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale-20-contents/)
+- [MariaDB MaxScale 1.4 Documentation](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-enterprise/mariadb-maxscale-14/maxscale-maxscale-contents/)
+
+The module and configuration documentation can be found in the _Documentation_
+directory of the source tree.
+
+# Contributing Code
+
+Read the [Contributing](https://github.com/mariadb-corporation/MaxScale/wiki/Contributing)
+page on the wiki for more information on how to do pull request and where to do
+them.