Going to be Digging into MySQL
Today I'm going to be spinning up a MySQL instance in Amazon's EC2 for holding the metrics of our application. The goal is to have historical records for detecting trends and A/B testing to see the effects of the changes. It's all about "save it - report it", and I'm looking forward to using MySQL in this case. I've not done a ton with MySQL, and it's a huge deal here at The Shop, so it'll be nice to see it all done right, with good tools, and monitoring as well as good backups.
I've found an interesting OS X client for MySQL - and I'll be digging into it as soon as I get things set up. Or maybe I'll just stick t the command line as I like that on PostgreSQL best. Who knows… it's exciting to be moving in this direction this morning. I just hope I can make some real progress today.