Books Authored by Percona

High Performance MySQL, 2nd Edition

Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, and Vadim Tkachenko completed this groundbreaking book in early 2008. It is the authoritative guide to building fast, scalable, reliable systems with MySQL. It has sold tens of thousands of copies and has been translated into many languages, including Czech, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and German. It is published by O'Reilly Media.

SQL Antipatterns

Bill Karwin has helped thousands of people write better SQL and build stronger relational databases. Now he's sharing his collection of antipatterns—the most common errors he's identified in those thousands of requests for help. Most developers aren't SQL experts, and the SQL they write is sometimes inefficient, hard to maintain, or just plain wrong. This book shows you all the common mistakes, and then leads you through the best fixes. What's more, it shows you what's behind these fixes, so you'll learn a lot about relational databases along the way. This book is published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

Web Operations

Baron Schwartz contributed the material on relational database strategy and tactics for this book in early 2010. It focuses on understanding the options for architecting a scalable, robust database without falling into the traps of thinking that you must shard your database early. Baron explains why sharding is an undesirable architecture and should be avoided if possible, favoring easier-to-operate architectures such as a single server, replication, or variations on partitioning strategies. Most web applications do not need to scale to massive sizes, and an architecture that is designed for the correct scale is much more reliable and less expensive to operate. This book is published by O'Reilly.