Further Reading
Jeremy Zawodny has a great collection of papers and presentations on scaling MySQL and MySQL replication available online at http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/.
Information on hardware load balancers is available from many vendors, including the following:
Leaders in the field include Alteon, BigIP, Cisco, Foundry, and Extreme Networks. LVS and mod_backhand are excellent software load balancers.
You can find out more about SRM at www.vl-srm.net.
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