How Merged Seckill Boosts MySQL Write Throughput by 5× for High‑Concurrency Flash Sales
The article explains a MySQL kernel‑level merged seckill optimization that replaces traditional queue‑based flash‑sale handling, achieving up to 5‑fold throughput gains (up to 1.5 W/s) without requiring SQL changes, detailing background, performance results, bottleneck analysis, design of cache visibility, leader‑follower coordination, row‑lock refinements, binlog parallelism, and crash‑recovery considerations.
