DBA – Ehsan Pourtorab

Intentionally Saturate MySQL Memory Until Server Crashes

I was testing one of my automations and needed MySQL to intentionally consume a lot of memory, so it will be killed by OOM Killer and I found this great answer in StackOverflow:

Migrate from on-premise MySQL Server to Amazon Aurora in near zero downtime

Introduction A lot of companies are thinking about migrating their infrastructure to Cloud and one of the most important show stoppers is downtime, especially when it comes to database migration. In this post, I am going to show you how we migrated our on-premise MySQL Server to Amazon Aurora for MySQL in near-zero downtime. AContinue reading “Migrate from on-premise MySQL Server to Amazon Aurora in near zero downtime”