Fixing Poor MySQL Default Configuration Values. Some tips from Jeremy Zawodny on configuring MySQL for high traffic environments—he suggests skip-name-resolve, connect_timeout=20, thread_cache_size=not-zero, max_connect_errors=very-high-number, slave_net_timeout=30.
Recent articles
- Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast with CL Kao and Dori Wilson - 26th November 2025
- Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult - 24th November 2025
- sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatible changes - 24th November 2025