TechPlanetScaleover 2 years ago
MySQL replication: Best practices and considerations
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PlanetScale recommends active/passive replication over active/active for MySQL. Active/passive uses one source server with read-only replicas, splitting read load. Active/active lacks native conflict resolution, risking data loss. Asynchronous replication may introduce delay between source and replica writes.
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