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MySQL transactions per second vs fsyncs per second.
https://sirupsen.com/napkin/problem-10-mysql-transactions-per-second
saved 2025-03-21

One more reason to choose #Postgres over #MySQL
https://tanin.nanakorn.com/one-more-re

This is a nice write-up of some complex and careful decisions and collaboration to navigate hard tradeoffs that in the end got the job done
I wish we also had more open discussions about the opposite scenario: "when the right tool is the wrong choice"
https://tern.sh/blog/pagerduty-cassadr

When the Wrong Tool is the Right Choice: PagerDuty's Cassandra Queue | Tern Blog
In 2011, PagerDuty was using MySQL as a queue. If you just winced, you understand the problem.

And then look at any other
potentional @… package that would benefit from this, which will probably mean https://github.com/friends-of-reactphp/mysql/

Near Data Processing in Taurus Database
Shu Lin, Arunprasad P. Marathe, Per-\.Ake Larson, Chong Chen, Calvin Sun, Paul Lee, Weidong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20010

Near Data Processing in Taurus Database
Huawei's cloud-native database system GaussDB for MySQL (also known as Taurus) stores data in a separate storage layer consisting of a pool of storage servers. Each server has considerable compute power making it possible to push data reduction operations (selection, projection, and aggregation) close to storage. This paper describes the design and implementation of near data processing (NDP) in Taurus. NDP has several benefits: it reduces the amount of data shipped over the network; frees up C…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=p0K7u3B_8rY
Deep space software update …
… reminds me of the time I was an undergraduate on my first contract job and got MySQL working in Perl via just FTP and no terminal access …
… like sticking your arm into a drink machine, shoulder …

#SQL Generated Columns & Views in #Laravel #php #mysql