MySQL offers native support for connecting via SSL. By default this is available in AWS RDS MySQL instances. Using this connection method effectively encrypts all data going back and forth between the client and the server. This prevents eavesdropping (aka … Continue reading
Ran a very specific benchmark of MySQL – the native SSL connection performance penalty on AWS RDS. When establishing a MySQL connection there is a way to tell the server to use SSL to encrypt the communication between the client … Continue reading
When trying to build SysBench 0.4.12 you may be getting an error like: /bin/sh ../libtool –tag=CC –mode=link gcc -pthread -g -O2 -o sysbench sysbench.o sb_timer.o sb_options.o sb_logger.o db_driver.o tests/fileio/libsbfileio.a tests/threads/libsbthreads.a tests/memory/libsbmemory.a tests/cpu/libsbcpu.a tests/oltp/libsboltp.a tests/mutex/libsbmutex.a drivers/mysql/libsbmysql.a -L/usr/local/mysql/lib/ -lmysqlclient_r -lrt -lm ../libtool: line … Continue reading
