Nick Vyzas — ProxySQL Blog

Releasing ProxySQL 2.2.0

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded from the ProxySQL Repository (instru

Releasing ProxySQL 2.1.1

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded from the ProxySQL Repository (instru

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.18

Nick Vyzas — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded from the ProxySQL Repository (instru

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.17

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded here or alternatively from the Proxy

Unadventurous Amazon RDS Upgrades with ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT

If you're still running RDS 5.5 you have reached the end of the line, its time to upgrade... heck, if you're running RDS 5.6 an upgrade is just as mandatory!

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.16

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded here or alternatively from the Proxy

We are hiring at ProxySQL for 2021!

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

https://proxysql.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/we-are-hiring-2021.pngProxySQL is a high performance highly-available protocol aware proxy for MySQL and its for

Observability Enhancements in ProxySQL 2.1 with Prometheus & Grafana

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT

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Releasing ProxySQL 2.1.0

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT

Check out whats new in ProxySQL 2.1.0 here:

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.15

Nick Vyzas — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, protocol aware proxy for MySQL, with a GPL license! It can be downloaded here or alternatively from the Proxy

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.14

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is proud to announce the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.14 on the 8th of September 2020 ProxySQL is a high performance, high ava

Protect your data using ProxySQL Firewall

Nick Vyzas — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL Firewall Overview ProxySQL's flexible query rules engine has many uses, from Read/Write splitting, sharding and even creating firewall blacklist. This

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.12

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is proud to announce the fast track release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.12 on 18th of May 2020 ProxySQL is a high performance, high a

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.11

Nick Vyzas — Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is proud to announce the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.11 on 30th of April 2020 ProxySQL is a high performance, high availabili

Architecting MySQL for Scale with ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT

A selection of the companies we have helped scale

COVID-19

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL LLC. has been operating as a remote first company for years, which has allowed us to have coverage in all timezones, from the Americas, to Europe and A

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.10

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is proud announce the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.10 on 25th of February 2020.

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.9

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL is proud announce the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.9 on 17th of February 2020. ProxySQL is a high performance, high availabi

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.8

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Proudly announcing the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.8 on 5th of November 2019. ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, pro

Releasing ProxySQL 2.0.7

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT

Proudly announcing the release of the latest stable version of ProxySQL 2.0.7 on 2nd of October 2019. ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, prot

ProxySQL Technology Day

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL Technology Day at Ghent, Belgium on Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 We are proud to announce our inaugural free ProxySQL Technology Day held in Ghent, Bel

Native Galera Support In ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT

The latest enhancement in ProxySQL v2.0.0 is the native support of Galera Cluster. No more need to use an external script within the scheduler like explained al

Amazon Aurora - Seamless Planned Failover with ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMT

One of the more popular solutions for a DBaaS in today's market is Amazon's RDS / Aurora service. Historically Amazon RDS was quite popular however Aurora has b

Scaling from a Dark Ages of Big Data to Brighter Today

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

This topic has been up in the air for a long time. What would be the best approach: get less large boxes or smaller for the same price? What would be pros and c

SSL Encryption at ProxySQL Part 1

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 20 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

MySQL, ProxySQL & SSL As we all know, MySQL supports using SSL to secure connections by encrypting the data in transit and protecting it from snooping on the w

ClickHouse and ProxySQL queries rewrite

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT

ClickHouse and MySQL do not have the same SQL syntax and functions ProxySQL is a popular open source, high performance and protocol-aware proxy server for MySQ

GTID consistent reads

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Adaptive query routing based on GTID tracking ProxySQL is a layer 7 database proxy that understands the MySQL Protocol. It provides high availability and high

ProxySQL Fast Routing

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL's new routing algorithm to handle hundreds of thousands of schemas/shards ProxySQL is a service designed to scale and handle traffic in very large setups. In the past we already showed examples of how ProxySQL can handle thousands of MySQL servers, and millions (yes, millions!) of distinct...

Benchmarking ProxySQL 1.4.4

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Comparing ProxySQL 1.4.3 vs. 1.4.4 ProxySQL 1.4.4 has recently been released (GA on Dec 20, 2017) which naturally leads to the question “What performance gains

Native ProxySQL Clustering now available

Nick Vyzas — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:00:00 GMT

ProxySQL 1.4.2 now supports Native Clustering!!! ProxySQL enters the club of the software associated with the buzz word "Cluster". This blog post is the first

How to run multiple ProxySQL instances

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT

How to run multiple ProxySQL instances Some time ago I wrote about the ability of running multiple ProxySQL instances listening on the same port(s). This capa

Scaling with ProxySQL Query Cache

Nick Vyzas — Sun, 28 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT

MySQL Query Cache Before writing about ProxySQL Query Cache, let's see what MySQL Query Cache is. MySQL Query Cache is a very interesting feature that, quot

On demand query routing - how to prevent downtime on your main MySQL server

Nick Vyzas — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

In a previous post I wrote about how read/write split is implemented in ProxySQL, and what I believe is the best practice for read/write split on top of MySQL servers: start sending all traffic to MySQL master identify what queries can be routed to the MySQL

Obfuscate data from mysqldump with ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

While me and Fred were presenting Inexpensive Datamasking for MySQL with ProxySQL at FOSDEM 2017, we got a very interesting question: can ProxySQL be used to ob

MySQL read/write split with ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Query routing is one of the core features of ProxySQL. Read/write split is perhaps one of the most common query routing use, while the other most commonly used

Multiple ProxySQL instances on same ports, and seamless upgrade

Nick Vyzas — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Since its genesis ProxySQL was designed to be reconfigurable at runtime without restarting it. There are only 2 exceptions: changing the listening ports (work i

Comparing Query Cache in ProxySQL and MaxScale

Nick Vyzas — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Few days ago MariaDB announced MaxScale 2.1.0 Beta, and among the new Query Performance capabilities there is Query Cache Filter. Query Cache was among the very

ProxySQL and MaxScale on point select workload

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Few days ago MariaDB announced that MaxScale 2.1 is roughly 45% faster than MaxScale 2.0 . I first want to congratulate MaxScale Team: MaxScale 2.1 seems to

Conociendo ProxySQL

Nick Vyzas — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Last month, January 2017, two DevOps meetups were organized in Spain with the same topic: "Conociendo ProxySQL", presented by txetxu Velayos, @txetxuvel The

Releasing ProxySQL 1.3.4

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT

I am happy to announce the release of the latest stable release of ProxySQL 1.3.4 on 18 February 2017. ProxySQL is a high performance, high availability, pro

Proxy Wars: comparing ProxySQL to others

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

MySQL load balancers and proxies are becoming a very hot topic in the last few years. In the near future there will two presentations to compare proxies: T

Galera Awareness and ProxySQL Scheduler

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT

One of the most common requests for ProxySQL is to support Galera Cluster. The Issue Support for Galera requires a lot of features to be added to ProxySQL:

Query rewrite with ProxySQL: use case scenario

Nick Vyzas — Sat, 18 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMT

One of ProxySQL most interesting features is query rewrite. This functionality is one of the main reasons to write a proxy that sits between the applicatio

ProxySQL vs MaxScale: Persistent Connection, response time, and bugs

Nick Vyzas — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMT

A benchmark comparison of ProxySQL and MaxScale focusing on persistent connections, throughput, response time, and critical session-tracking bugs in MaxScale's implementation.