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:

• Alteonwww.alteon.com

• BigIPwww.f5.com

• Ciscowww.cisco.com

• Foundrywww.foundry.com

• Extreme Networkswww.extremenetworks.com

• mod_backhandwww.backhand.org

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.