MySQL Articles

  • image-of-my-sql-cluster

    Addressing the last mile problem with MySQL high availability

    April 22, 2022

    MySQL is the first database choice for applications at LinkedIn that require a relational database store. Managing a large number of databases involves handling numerous complexities; the MySQL SRE team at LinkedIn is responsible for maintaining 99.99% uptime for the service provided to our internal customers. Over the years, we have made many changes to the way...

  • queryanalyzer2

    Query Analyzer: A Tool for Analyzing MySQL Queries Without Overhead

    September 15, 2017

    Editor's note: Query Analyzer was open sourced following the original publication of this blog post and can be found on Github. Introduction LinkedIn uses MySQL heavily, as more than 500 internal applications rely on MySQL. For easy management and better utilization, we built MySQL as a service model which is a multi-tenant architecture. One major disadvantage...