Interesting Snippets from 2016-08-24

• Context aware MySQL pools via HAProxy - GitHub Engineering

  We use HAProxy for various tasks at GitHub. Among others, we use it to load balance our MySQL replicas. Our applications connect to HAProxy servers at :3306 and are routed to replicas that can serve read requests. Exactly what makes a replica able to “serve read requests” is the topic of this post.

• NoSQL Databases: a Survey and Decision Guidance — Baqend Blog

  This NoSQL Toolbox allows us to derive a simple decision tree to help practitioners and researchers filter potential system candidates based on central application requirements.

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