In this blog post, we’ll look at how ProxySQL improves MySQL SSL connection performance.
When deploying MySQL with SSL, the main concern is that the initial handshake causes significant overhead if you are not using connection pools (i.e., mysqlnd-mux with PHP, mysql.connector.pooling in Python, etc.). Closing and making new connections over and over can greatly impact on your total query response time. A customer and colleague recently educated me that although you can improve SSL encryption/decryption performance with the AES-NI hardware extension on modern Intel processors, the actual overhead when creating SSL connections comes from the handshake when multiple roundtrips between the server and client are needed.
With ProxySQL’s support for SSL on its backend connections and connection pooling, we can have it sit in front of any application, on the same server (illustrated below):
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