In recent weeks I have been sharing more informal thoughts and in the upcoming weeks, there will be a period of greater radio silence.
After three decades as a professional, I am taking the entire summer off. This will be a chance to intentionally not sit at a desk, stare at a screen, look at my phone, read emails, read articles, and all those other work and personal related activities one does.
At the MySQL and Heatwave Summit 2025 today, Readyset announced a new data systems architecture pattern named Readyset QueryPilot . This architecture which can front a MySQL or PostgreSQL database infrastructure, combines the enterprise-grade ProxySQL and Readyset caching with intelligent query monitoring and routing to help support applications scale and produce more predictable results with varied workloads.
Read moreIn a CPU-bound database workload, regardless of price, would you scale-up or scale-new? What if price was the driving factor, would you scale-up or scale-new? I am using as a baseline the first available AWS Graviton2 processor for RDS (r6g).
Read moreAs part of using public datasets with my own Benchmarking Suite I wanted upsize a dataset for larger volume testing. I have always used the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES data_length and index_length columns as a sufficiently accurate measurement for actual disk space used.
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