Implicit and automatic connection failover done by the driver is broken by design, correct? Should PECL/mysqlnd_ms implement automatic failover? Today Johannes showed me an IRC snippet about TAF (Transparent Application Failover). Maybe, I fail miserably but I don’t see a … Continue reading →

Imagine PECL/mysqlnd_ms could keep certain reads on certain slaves in a MySQL master slave setup. You would have a good chance to profit from hot database caches. You would not only distribute read load, scale out horizonally and so forth … Continue reading →

How transparent does master slave load balancing support for mysqlnd have to be? Transparency, when driven to the extremes, has three limiting factory: power users not needing it, increase of messages send to MySQL, time intensive SQL monitoring and parsing. … Continue reading →

Are you interested in a master slave load balancing plugin for mysqlnd? It could have two operational modes. The automatic mode would operate transparent from an applications point of view. The manual mode would give you full control over all … Continue reading →