Brian Aker has found general agreement with his post: "The
Death of Read Replication".
Arjen Lentz says "I
think Brian is right...", and Frank Mash confirmed: "what Brian says about replication, caching and
memcached is very true".
Just like Video killed the Radio Star it looks like
maybe Memcached killed the Replication
Hierarchy!
But of course, Brian and others are talking about replication
for scaling reads.
In my session on PBXT next week at the conference I will
be talking about how we plan …
Apr
08
2008
Jan
12
2008
Whew! I just finished a marathon of revisions. It's been a while since I posted about our progress, so here's an update for the curious readers.
Nov
10
2007
It's been a while since I've written about progress on the book. I actually stopped working on it as much at the beginning of the month, because on October 31(st) I managed to finish a first draft of the last big chapter! Now I'm back to full-time work at my employer, and I'm working on the book in the evenings and weekends only. Read on for details of what I've been working on and what's next in the pipeline.
Oct
22
2007
Recently I wanted to setup a little MySQL sandbox where I could hack away at MySQL with reckless abandon.? A sandbox is different than a test environment, it’s usually one which is very breakable.? You want to be able to break things, or rather take them completely apart and put them back together.? It’s the only way to understand all of the moving parts.
So searching google, I happened upon Giuseppe Maxia’s Replication Playground. It basically installs into an unprivileged directory, one master, and three slaves.? You can then test out various scenarios. Read his blog entry.
It is trivial to install, however I encountered some issues with MySQL 5.0, which caused me some troubles.? I sent him my feedback, and comments, and it looks like he has …
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Oct
19
2007
Continuing in the tradition, which I hope has been as helpful to you as it has been to me, I'm opening the floor for suggestions on chapter 9 of the upcoming High Performance MySQL, Second Edition. Unlike the other chapters for which I've listed outlines, this one isn't substantially written yet. It's in detailed outline form at this point (a tactic that has worked very well for us so far -- I'll write about that someday).
I'm trying to get feedback much earlier in this chapter's lifecycle, for several reasons. Two of the most important are that this is one of the first chapters I've had a chance to really take from scratch, and the chapters I haven't written from scratch have been harder to organize, as you've probably seen from the last few outlines I posted. There's a lot of value in working top-down on this deep encyclopedia-style material.
Read on for the outline and more thoughts I just can't keep to myself.