There was this one book I was reading and then ….
I had been spending time with the book High Performance MySQL by Schwartz, Zaitsev and Tkachenko, when I realized I didn’t have anything to test these ideas against. I’m going to assume that if you’re a MySQL DBA, this book is somewhere in your library. If not, even though it is somewhat outdated, there are gems of information in it.
But we aren’t hyping the book right now
I wanted to do indepth testing and learn how to make pretty graphs and use the graphs to figure out stuff just like they do at Percona, but at most corporates the time cost is too expensive and they inevitably give you 3 small VM’s.
I wanted to play with ClickHouse*, create a Zabbix† topography map from scratch and work on tools for Zabbix that reviewed queries, logs, and updated dev/qa environments with faker data.
And I wanted to see the use with a mock enterprise like setup. Like – yo! You need at least 3 servers for HA!
I thought of using VirtualBox‡, but it might have dirtied my baselines due to resource competition. I thought about buying a server – but the cost was way prohibitive for a home sandbox. Then I started looking at NUC’s, but they were expensive for what you got – and I didn’t really need much.
I took a gamble with the mini’s.