Check out https://www.percona.com/blog https://www.percona.com/blog (filter for MySQL) I have been a heavy user of the Percona distribution of MySQL for many y

Check out https://www.percona.com/blog https://www.percona.com/blog (filter for MySQL) I have been a heavy user of the Percona distribution of MySQL for many years and highly recommend it. I think that most of the MySQL articles on percona.com are relevant for other MySQL distributions. As a side note, depending on the software stack, ProxySQL can have a major positive impact on performance and scalability.