9 Best Articles in 2021
Uber Engineering
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
Uber Engineering
~20 min read · 157 saves · From 2016 · Uber Engineering explains the technical reasoning behind its switch in database technologies, from Postgres to MySQL.
githubengineering.com
MySQL High Availability at GitHub
githubengineering.com
~13 min read · 50 saves · From 2018 · 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
blog.wix.engineering
Scaling to 100M: MySQL is a Better NoSQL
blog.wix.engineering
5 min read · 21 saves · From 2016 · When considering a NoSQL use case, such as key/value storage, MySQL makes more sense in terms of performance, ease of use, and stability.
Uber Engineering
Dockerizing MySQL at Uber Engineering
Uber Engineering
9 min read · 18 saves · From 2016 · In this article, we take a look at Schemadock, Uber Engineering's tooling solution for managing our increasing number of MySQL clusters.
aws.amazon.com
Aurora Serverless MySQL Generally Available
aws.amazon.com
6 min read · 47 saves · From 2018 · You may have heard of , a custom built MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible database born and built in the cloud. You may have also heard of , which allows you to build and run applications and services without thinking about instances. These are two pieces of the growing AWS technology story that we’re really excited […]
mysqlserverteam.com
What’s New in MySQL 8.0? (Generally Available)
mysqlserverteam.com
20+ min read · 19 saves · From 2018 · We proudly announce General Availability of MySQL 8.0. Download now! MySQL 8.0 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database with improvements across the boa…
Uber Engineering
Designing Schemaless, Uber Engineering's Scalable Datastore Using MySQL
Uber Engineering
~11 min read · 33 saves · From 2016 · The making of Schemaless, Uber Engineering’s custom designed datastore using MySQL, which has allowed us to scale from 2014 to beyond.
githubengineering.com
gh-ost: GitHub’s online schema migration tool for MySQL
githubengineering.com
~14 min read · 14 saves · From 2016 · Today we are announcing the open source release of gh-ost: GitHub’s triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL.
githubengineering.com
MySQL infrastructure testing automation at GitHub
githubengineering.com
~13 min read · 15 saves · From 2017 · Our MySQL infrastructure is a critical component to GitHub. MySQL serves GitHub.com, GitHub’s API, authentication and more. Every git request touches MySQL in some way. We are tasked with keeping the…
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pixeljets.com
Clickhouse as an alternative to ElasticSearch and MySQL, for log storage and analysis, in 2021
pixeljets.com
9 min read · Mar 2nd · In 2018, I've written an article about Clickhouse [https://pixeljets.com/blog/clickhouse-as-a-replacement-for-elk-big-query-and-timescaledb/] , this piece of content is still pretty popular across the…
freeCodeCamp.org
Python SQL – How to use the SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL Databases with Python
freeCodeCamp.org
4 min read · Mar 26th · One of my greatest joys as a developer is learning how different technologies intersect. Over the years I've had the opportunity to work with different types of software and tools. Of the many tools…
The New Stack
Explore and Visualize Data the Apache Superset Way
The New Stack
3 min read · Feb 11th · Born from a 2016 Airbnb hackathon, Superset provides an easy way to visualize data from a variety of databases, including MySQL, Presto, Hive, Postgres, Dremio, Snowflake, and Teradata.
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On Uber's Choice of Databases
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10 min read · 56 saves · From 2016 · Uber provides bad advice about PostreSQL vs. MySQL
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A RocksDB storage engine with MySQL
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18 saves · From 2017 · Benefit from all the features of MySQL while using RocksDB as backend storage
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Growing up with MySQL
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How To Make an App For Your Website In Less Than 30 Minutes
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5 min read · 43 saves · From 2016 · This is Chapter 4 of 5 This article is the fourth chapter of my guide on Building Apps With MySQL and Wordpress. This guide shows you how to make three different MySQL/Wordpress powered apps that all leverage the benefit of having a web hosting account. The first chapter shows you how to sign up for a hosting account. The second chapter shows you how to set up the MySQL database and create the first app that will read data from it. The third chapter shows you how to create a Wordpress site and c
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The Ultimate Postgres vs MySQL Blog Post
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~15 min read · 16 saves · From 2018 ·
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How to support full Unicode in MySQL databases
Mathias Bynens
20+ min read · 13 saves · From 2014 · Alternative title: The things we do to store U+1F4A9 PILE OF POO (💩) correctly. Are you using MySQL’s utf8 charset in your databases? In this write-up I’ll explain why you should switch to utf8mb4…
Uber Engineering
Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL
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~20 min read · 16 saves · 2020-03-12 · The early architecture of Uber consisted
github.com
dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres: A curated list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources, inspired by awesome-mysql
github.com
26 saves · From 2016 · awesome-postgres - A curated list of awesome PostgreSQL software, libraries, tools and resources, inspired by awesome-mysql
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Sharding Pinterest: How we scaled our MySQL fleet
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2 min read · 13 saves · From 2015 · “Shard. Or do not shard. There is no try.”
- Yoda
This is a technical dive into how we split our data across many MySQL servers. We finished launching this sharding approach in early 2012, and it’s still the system we use today to store our core data.
