The JusDB Database Engineering Blog

Deep dive into InnoDB storage engine internals. Understand buffer pool, redo log, undo log, change buffer, and adaptive hash index for expert-level MySQL optimization.

Production-ready MySQL Group Replication deployment guide. Learn cluster sizing, monitoring setup, performance tuning, and disaster recovery planning.

Everything you need to know about MySQL: storage engines, replication topologies, performance tuning, and cloud deployment. From basics to advanced optimization.

Leverage MySQL 8.4 InnoDB parallel DDL for faster schema changes. Learn parallel index creation, online DDL improvements, and reduced maintenance windows.

MySQL wait_timeout, net_read_timeout, innodb_lock_wait_timeout and max_execution_time — production tuning rules and the HikariCP alignment trick that prevents 'communications link failure' errors.

Configure MySQL binlog retention safely: binlog_expire_logs_seconds, manual purging rules, AWS RDS retention, and the disk-exhaustion failure mode you should monitor for.

MySQL architecture from query parser to disk: optimizer pipeline, InnoDB buffer pool, redo log, and storage internals every production DBA needs in 2026.

Production MariaDB Galera Cluster: mariabackup-based SST, MaxScale Galera-aware routing, schema-change strategy with TOI vs RSU, and a troubleshooting playbook for the failures that actually take down production.

Eliminate stale cache reads and thundering-herd stampedes by streaming MySQL binlog changes to Valkey via Debezium CDC. Full Java setup with embedded engine and XFetch.

Migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL using pgLoader. Covers schema differences, type casting, application code changes, validation, and zero-downtime migration strategies.

Design multi-tenant databases — compare schema-per-tenant, row-level-security, and database-per-tenant approaches

Use Aurora Serverless v2 for cost-effective scaling — ACU configuration, scaling behavior, and when it fits