Don’t have time to read Efficient MySQL Performance?
Here’s the book (10 chapters) in one-liners.
Performance is query response time.
Proper left-most indexing is required for performance.
The less data, the better.
Access patterns (part of the workload) help or hinder performance.
Sharding is how to scale writes when single-node performance is truly reached.
Server metrics reflect how the app workload causes MySQL to work.
Replication lag is data loss.
Locks are held until a transaction commits, so commit quickly.
There are many other challenges that you might need to address—sorry.
MySQL in the cloud is slower and more expensive, so performance is more important than ever.
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Efficient MySQL Performance
20 years of MySQL performance, written for software engineers
Nov 9, 2024
Don’t have time to read Efficient MySQL Performance? Here’s the book (10 chapters) in one-liners.
Source: https://hackmysql.com/book/
Copyright 2025 Daniel Nichter
| # | Наименование новости | Тональность | Информативность | Дата публикации |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Don’t Want to Shard (MySQL) | 0 | 10.87 | 20-05-2022 |
| 2 | Performance Is Less | 0 | 6.72 | 19-03-2022 |
| 3 | Queries Effect Performance | 0 | 6.55 | 12-01-2020 |
| 4 | How Not to Use MySQL | 0 | 5.77 | 16-09-2022 |
| 5 | Configuring MySQL Query Metrics | 0 | 7.26 | 16-01-2022 |
| 6 | Why MySQL Replication Is Fast | 0 | 8.26 | 31-05-2024 |
| 7 | Access Patterns for MySQL | 0 | 5.66 | 17-04-2022 |
| 8 | Mining the MySQL Performance Schema for Transactions | 0 | 5.63 | 28-08-2022 |
| 9 | Is MySQL in the Cloud the End of the DBA? | 0 | 6.01 | 15-10-2022 |
| 10 | Lessons From 20 Years Hacking MySQL (Part 2) | 0 | 11.42 | 20-06-2024 |