PHP: Master slave load balancing in mysqlnd - how transparent?
Note: This article was originally published at Planet PHP
on 21 February 2011.
How transparent does master slave load balancing support for mysqlnd have to be? Transparency, when driven to the extremes, has three limiting factory: power users not needing it, increase of messages send to MySQL, time intensive SQL monitoring and parsing. The PECL/mysqlnd_ms proof-of-concept mysqlnd plugin is almost transparent to ...


