16. Optimal Replication
Introduction
MySQL’s replication features allow you to quickly and easily spread your processing load among multiple database servers. This chapter focuses on the performance aspects of replication. It begins by briefly explaining how this vital technology works, along with some tips you can use to decide if replication is right for you.
Next, you examine several replication scenarios, starting with several very basic topographies, and then explore how these can scale to more complex configurations. Finally, this chapter discusses how to optimize your replication performance.
Entire books have been written on distributed computing, load balance, and database replication theory and topographies. ...
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