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Life & fun · April 16, 2024

Janus – A read/write MySQL proxy for Rails' ActiveRecord 7.1

Janus – A read/write MySQL proxy for Rails' ActiveRecord 7.1 launched on April 16, 2024 with 7 votes, #1,479 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.

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In ancient Roman religion and myth, Janus (/ˈdʒeɪnəs/ JAY-nəs; Latin: Ianvs [ˈi̯aːnʊs]) is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways,[2] passages, frames, and endings. (wikipedia) Janus is a read/write split proxy for MySQL/ActiveRecord 7.1+. It works by sending any read queries to a replica , and any write queries to the primary database server. If there’s been a write statement within the same thread we stick any future queries to the primary server unless the developer specifically chooses not to. Other than that Janus should be pretty hands off. We deployed on our infrastructure (migrating from Makara ) on the 2024-04-09 and saw no effect on our metrics. We…from tech.olioex.com

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