Authors Vinicius Grippa and Sergey Kuzmichev from Percona show developers and DBAs methods for minimizing costs and maximizing availability and performance. You'll learn how to perform basic and advanced querying, monitoring and troubleshooting, database management and security, backup and recovery, and tuning for improved efficiency. This edition includes new chapters on high availability, load balancing, and using MySQL in the cloud.Get started with MySQL and learn how to use it in productionDeploy MySQL databases on bare metal, on virtual machines, and in the cloudDesign database infrastructuresCode highly efficient queriesMonitor and troubleshoot MySQL databasesExecute efficient backup and restore operationsOptimize database costs in the cloudUnderstand database concepts, especially those pertaining to MySQL