MySQL / MariaDB
Reliable relational databases for web applications.
MySQL is the most widely used relational database in the web space.
It’s the default choice for many PHP applications and offers a great balance of performance, stability and simple administration.
Why MySQL?
- Widespread: Many CMS and shops (WordPress, Shopware, Laravel) use MySQL.
- Community & ecosystem: Large community, lots of tooling and libraries.
- Performance: Fast reads and writes.
- Flexible: Transactions, partitioning, replication & stored procedures.
Typical use cases:
- Web apps with medium to large traffic
- E‑commerce systems with high data volume (products, orders, customers)
- Multi‑tenant architectures with Laravel
Services with MySQL
- Schema design & optimisation: Normalisation, indexing strategies, relations.
- Performance tuning: Query optimisation, EXPLAIN analysis, caching.
- Replication & scale: Master/replica setups, read replicas, failover.
- Backups & maintenance: Automated backups, monitoring, recovery strategies.
Example projects
- Shop DB with 100k+ products incl. price and stock sync.
- Multi-tenant platform with separate DBs per customer.
- Optimisation: Reduced query times from seconds to milliseconds.
Monitoring & security
- Using Percona Toolkit, Performance Schema and slow query logs
- Automated alerting via Grafana/Prometheus or SaaS solutions
- Security hardening (least privilege, encryption, audit logs)
- Regular updates, replication checks and failover testing
Migration & modernisation
- Planning MySQL version upgrades or migrations to MariaDB/Aurora
- Data migrations from legacy systems including data cleansing
- Setting up blue-green deployments and zero-downtime migrations
- Documenting data models and transferring knowledge to teams
Conclusion
MySQL is a robust, proven standard for web apps.
I’ll help you get the most from your DB — performance and reliability.