What is it, what’s it good for, how do I set it up, and how do I monitor it?
HyperDB is an advanced class that WordPress can use in order to connect to multiple databases. These databases might be used for (for example) failover/resiliency, load balancing, separating reads from writes, and just getting a little more horse power on the database side of things in general.
In this talk, we’ll look at what HyperDB is, when you might want to use it, how to use it in the first place, as well as some other flavors of MySQL that you might consider taking a look at (in particular MariaDB and Percona MySQL).
This session is aimed at advanced developers who are looking to level-up their database chops.