Hours ago, I have committed the first documentation draft for PECL/mysqlnd_ms. The mirrors should show it on Saturday. PECL/mysqlnd_ms is a replication and load balancing plugin for the mysqlnd library. Its latest feature, master_on_write, helps to work around the issue … Continue reading →

Introducing the best load balancing policy for PECL/mysqlnd_ms: "random_once". A (PHP) web request is short-lived. A web server can handle multiple requests per second. There are many web servers running an application. For each web request choose a random slave … Continue reading →

Write-read sequences can be tricky for users of MySQL replication, if what has been written needs to be available for reading immediately. Slaves could be behind. You have to run the sequence on the master. If MySQL semisynchronous replication would … Continue reading →

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 →

Psst, you want some client-side MySQL load balancing with and without sharding for your PHP application? PHP 5.3 has something to offer for you. It is free. It requires no to very little changes to your applications. It is open … Continue reading →

Recently I was forced to benchmark a mysqlnd plugin on Windows. X-Debug was no help. It worked flawless on Windows but it can’t tell you what goes on inside a PHP user space API call, for example, you will not … Continue reading →

Did you ever want to see the database queries an arbitrary PHP MySQL application runs? It takes two free downloads and 62 characters to see them. Get PHP 5.3.4-dev Get PECL/mysqlnd_qc Add 19 characters to your configure line: –enable-mysqlnd-qc Add … Continue reading →