MySQL Reference Architectures for Massively Scalable Web Infrastructure

MySQL Best Practices for Innovating on the Web

MySQL is deployed in 9 of the top 10 most trafficked sites on the web including Google, Facebook and YouTube. This gives MySQL unique insight into how to design database-driven web architectures that deliver the highest levels of scalability and availability with the lowest levels of cost, risk and complexity.

This whitepaper presents a series of Reference Architectures for small, medium and large Web properties. You will learn about the components common to most web properties including Session Management, Authentication, eCommerce and Content Management. Optimum deployment architectures and topologies are defined based on sizing and availability requirements for each environment. The paper also discusses the unique requirements for Large Social Networking applications.

The whitepaper covers the core underlying technologies supporting today’s most successful web services including:

• MySQL Server & the InnoDB Storage Engine
• MySQL Cluster
• Replication
• Heartbeat
• memcached
• Data analytics
• Geographic redundancy
• Hardware recommendations

By reading the whitepaper, you can learn from the experiences gained scaling the most successful web properties on the planet, enabling you to accelerate time to market while significantly reducing or even eliminating costly "trial and error" experimentation when deploying your next web service.

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