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Daniel Nichter
Personal blog · hackmysql.com/postprogrammingsystemsdata
Daniel Nichter writes Hack MySQL, a personal blog at hackmysql.com about programming, systems and data. Since 2008, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Are AWS Aurora Performance Claims True? (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-12-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Daniel Nichter's hackmysql.com for MySQL internals and operations, including group commit and transaction dependency tracking, the slow log, and tuning and monitoring tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hack MySQL is the personal website of Daniel Nichter, author of the book Efficient MySQL Performance published by O'Reilly. His webiste explores MySQL, Go, and software design.
Most-linked posts?
- Are AWS Aurora Performance Claims True? (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-13
What Hacker News says?
Except it isn’t nearly as fast as it claims [0]. And in real-world tests, I have never found it to beat RDS. You can get an insane amount of performance out of a well-tuned MySQL or Postgres instance, especially if you’ve designed your schema to exploit your RDBMS’ strengths (e.g. taking advantage of InnoDB’s clustering index to minimize page fetches for N:M relationships). And if you really need high performance, y…
Comment linking /are-aurora-performance-claims-true/
on “A $1k AWS mistake”Submitted I Don't Want to Shard (MySQL) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThere’s a nice summary of group commit in this MySQL 5.6 work log for binary log group commit implementation https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=5223 Great blog here too on changes since : https://hackmysql.com/group-commit-and-trx-dependency-tracki...
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on “MySQL transactions per second vs. fsyncs per second (2020)”Submitted Are AWS Aurora Performance Claims True? (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionhttp://www.drquincy.com/resources/tutorials/webserverside/ou... (in PHP) Also: http://mtop.sourceforge.net/ http://rackerhacker.com/mysqltuner/ https://launchpad.net/mysql-tuning-primer http://maatkit.sourceforge.net/doc/maatkit.html http://hackmysql.com/mysqlreport http://hackmysql.com/mysqlsla
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on “10 MySQL variables that you should monitor”Submitted MySQL: Indexing Joins as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAgree with most of these issues but your last claim is only true for older versions of MySQL. Newer versions do support microsecond resolution[1]. 1- http://hackmysql.com/slowlog
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on “Ask HN: Going from Redis to MySQL. Good idea?”Submitted Are Aurora Performance Claims True? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionnot a lot to go on, start here http://hackmysql.com/documents http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/optimization.html http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/04/common-steps-to-scale-l... http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2008/07/1-making-mysql-cl...
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on “Ask HN: A few hundred users and MySQL started to complain...”Submitted MySQL LRU Flushing and I/O Capacity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from 20 Years Hacking MySQL as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Grand list of MySQL tools as a story · 1 points
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