“The MySQL to be explored ” this is what i felt when i worked with it, and just going to share my experience with Aurora .
Recently we had an call for MySQL Consulting from one of the famous fantasy gaming site in India, stating that “Database (MySQL) is our bottleneck”, they want it to be stabilised before the major league match of this year (2017).
As a fast growing startup they have hosted their Infra on cloud (AWS). On further discussion it was revealed that they were using AWS AURORA MySQL for their production DB. Next question from our consulting team was
“why Aurora?”,
- Synchronous data across nodes within a lag of 100ms ( mostly ).
- Auto Scaling and Performance .
- High Availability of database. …