Database Insights

ProxySQL's read/write splitting routes SELECT queries to replicas and writes to the primary automatically — but getting the configuration right requires understanding hostgroups, query rules, and lag-aware routing.

ProxySQL maintains a rich internal stats schema that most teams never fully explore. Here's how to use ProxySQL's built-in monitoring to track query latency, backend health, and connection pool utilization.

MySQL generates multiple log files that will fill your disk if left unmanaged. Here's how to configure logrotate correctly for MySQL error logs, slow query logs, and binary logs.

MySQL 8 dramatically improved JSON support with functions that eliminate the need for application-side parsing. Here are 10 JSON functions that will transform how you work with JSON columns in MySQL.