Paper: Guide to Cost-effective Database Scale-Out using MySQL

Guide to Cost-effective Database Scale-Out using MySQL by MySQL

This paper is behind a registration-wall, you can't do anything on the MySQL site without filling out a form of some kind, but it's a short, decent introduction to using MySQL for a good sized website.

A Quick Hit of What's Inside

Scale-out vs. Scale Up, Customers using MySQL, Scale-Out Reference Architecture

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