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4. performance issues

"High Performance MySQL" ByJeremy D. Zawodny, Derek J. Balling — It's been very helpful to me

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596003067 http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Jeremy-Zawodny/...

⬐ rajusykam

Thank you, can you refer me some online resources which are free.

⬐ barredo

The authors of the book also have a blog: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/ it has lots of good reads

⬐ rajusykam

once again thanks for that...

My favorite advanced MySQL book is the O'Reilly one by Jeremy Zawodny (formerly the chief MySQL dude at Yahoo, now of Craigslist):

http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Jeremy-Zawodny/...

You can learn the basics of MySQL online or through just about any book, but once you've gotten beyond that and want to learn more, this book is loads better than all the others.

⬐ ROFISH

Thanks, I'll look into it.

Hehe...perhaps it didn't really surprise me so much, maybe I was just hoping for it to be a bit better!

I really don't like code that "hacks together" a solution and then requires a substantial remedy later (who does?!) so I'm quite interested in getting it right from the beginning.

Assuming that many of us here develop web applications, and that some are going to need to scale heavily, what do you recommend as a good solution?

I have yet to read either of these two books, but they are on my list (I only have one at home, the other I'll order): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Henderso... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Performance-MySQL-Advanced-Technique...

Both are O'Reilly so I'm assuming they'll be good!

Let me know if you have any other resources for this, because I imagine it's a very common issue for successful startups.

⬐ aston

"High Performance MySQL [and other oxymorons]"

Not a bad book, though, for letting you know about all of the random features MySQL has. It's hard to get the same information in one place otherwise.