Laravel Migration Generator Online

https://laravelarticle.com/laravel-migration-generator-online
Laravel migration generator for those of us who are fluent in SQL

Using AWS EC2 instance store vs EBS for MySQL: how to increase performance and decrease cost

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/08/20/using-aws-ec2-instance-store-vs-ebs-for-mysql-how-to-increase-performance-and-decrease-cost/
How to speed up MySQL on AWS, but there's some downsides.

Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/07/03/linux-os-tuning-for-mysql-database-performance/
I've done some of these before. Nice to see them all in one place.

Top 10 reasons for NoSQL with MySQL

https://lefred.be/content/top-10-reasons-for-nosql-with-mysql/
MySQL is making a big deal of its document store: a NoSQL layer.

PDO vs. MySQLi: The Battle of PHP Database APIs

https://websitebeaver.com/php-pdo-vs-mysqli
PDO and MySQLi in PHP. This author says go with PDO.

Migrate to Amazon RDS Using Percona Xtrabackup

https://www.percona.com/blog/2018/04/02/migrate-to-amazon-rds-with-percona-xtrabackup/
I've always thought the "mysqldump" method of migration was a bit lame.

adminer database management in a single file

https://www.adminer.org/
I've thought for a long time that PhpMyAdmin was getting old. Here's an alternative.

Write Set in MySQL 5.7: Group Replication

http://jfg-mysql.blogspot.sg/2018/01/write-set-in-mysql-5-7-group-replication.html
About as technical a MySQL article as I've seen in a while. New ways to replicate.

Top 5 open source tools for MySQL administrators

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3241730/database/top-5-open-source-tools-for-mysql-administrators.html
The standard phpmyadmin and 4 others.

How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration

https://www.sitepoint.com/optimize-mysql-indexes-slow-queries-configuration/
Another article on MySQL optimization from the percona folks. 

Review: DeepSQL outruns Amazon Aurora

http://infoworld.com/article/3068597/data-center/review-deepsql-outruns-amazon-aurora.html

The race for high-performance #MySQL clones heats up with DeepSQL.

Logging apache access to MySQL

http://dasunhegoda.com/apache-access-logs-to-mysql-database/953/

the tough part is getting mod_log_sql_mysql
http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/httpd/mod_log_sql/
http://git.outoforder.cc/httpd/mod_log_sql/
https://colekcolek.com/2012/03/12/save-apache-access-log-mysql-database-libaapche2-mod-log-sql-debian-squeeze/