In a previous post, we looked into load balancing for PHP apps and how to configure read-write splitting on MySQL Replication setups. The native PHP MySQL driver (php-mysqlnd_ms) would perform read/write splits, and the MySQL connections would be made on one of the two listeners of HAProxy.
In this post, we’ll play around with Java, Connector/J, MySQL Replication and HAProxy. One important thing to note is that, unlike php-mysqlnd_ms, Connector/J is aware of MySQL Replication but it does not automatically perform read-write splitting. We have to instruct the query statement in the code of our Java application to establish a so-called read operation, using a JDBC connection object as read-only. Then, the driver will redirect the query to one of the healthy slaves as defined in the JDBC connection …
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