Roberto Polli - Scaling MySQL with Python [EuroPython 2015] [20 July 2015] [Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain] Python is the language of choice for the orchestration part of MySQL 5.6. After a brief introduction of MySQL replication architecture, the talk [Slides here][1] presents the python utilities released by MySQL: - a set of drivers in pure-python - mysql-utilites for replication, management and failover - fabric, a tool for scaling, sharding and provisioning new servers You will see how to: - create resilient configurations in minutes - use mysql-fabric to create high available infrastructures As a plus, we'll show how we: - implemented a fabric provider for provisioning new databases via docker # Prerequisites Basic database knowledge, transactions, replication. MySQL specific concepts (eg: binary logs) are briefly introduced in the talk. [1]: http://www.slideshare.net/ioggstream/scaling-mysql-with-python