10 Best Articles on MySQL
The most useful articles on MySQL from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 MySQL Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on MySQL by Refind users in 2023 so far.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on MySQL—all under 10 minutes.
The best UUID type for a database Primary Key
Learn what UUID type works best for a database Primary Key column and why a time-sorted TSID is more effective than the standard UUID.
Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
We are sharing how we tackled the migration to MySQL 8.0 — and some of the surprises we had in the process.
Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL
When considering a NoSQL use case, such as key/value storage, MySQL makes more sense in terms of performance, ease of use, and stability.
Highly Available MySQL Clusters at WePay
This post describes WePay's highly available MySQL architecture, and how we achieve short outage times during failures.
Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools
In the past, we’ve shared why you should love MySQL and how it helped Pinterest scale via sharding. At Oracle Open World today, we announced that we’re open-sourcing the vast majority of our automation that maintains our MySQL infrastructure.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on MySQL.
MySQL High Availability at GitHub
GitHub uses MySQL as its main datastore for all things non-git, and its availability is critical to GitHub’s operation. The site itself, GitHub’s API, authentication and more, all require database access. We run multiple MySQL clusters serving our different services and tasks. Our clusters use classic master-replicas setup, where a single node in a cluster (the master) is able to accept writes. The rest of the cluster nodes (the replicas) asynchronously replay changes from the master and serve o
On Uber's Choice of Databases
Uber provides bad advice about PostreSQL vs. MySQL
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Uber Engineering explains the technical reasoning behind its switch in database technologies, from Postgres to MySQL.
The Ultimate Postgres vs MySQL Blog Post
I should probably say up front that I love working with Postgres and could die ...
Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering's Scalable Datastore Using MySQL
The making of Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s custom designed datastore using MySQL, which has allowed us to scale from 2014 to beyond.
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