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Having a single master is sometimes not viable in some situations. But yes, eventual consistency can be both a blessing and a curse. But if you can design your
by alfiejohn_ 15y ago
Having a single master is sometimes not viable in some situations. But yes, eventual consistency can be both a blessing and a curse.
But if you can design your system to take this into account, it's pretty easy to scale out and everything Just Works(tm).
- mattw 15y agoI don't know much about replication, but I'd like to learn. Can you recommend any books/courses/tutorials that address the sorts of design decisions you're talking about?
- alfiejohn_ 15y agoThe two must have books for MySQL admin and discuss MySQL's built in replication, what problems you'll encounter, how to tune etc. - High Performance MySQL (Schwartz et al) - MySQL High Availability (Bell et al) I think using MySQL::Replication can be applied on top of what's in these books, but not using their particular setups.