CHAPTER 4

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MySQL, Git, and Postfix

Databases, revision control, and e-mail servers are essential components of an organization’s infrastructure. This chapter covers three topics: MySQL, Git, and Postfix. Whether they are hosted in-house or in a public cloud, the choices you make should be well informed and based on technical, business, as well as engineering resources.

MySQL is a very popular open source relational database. It has been around since 1995 and, until recently, was the de facto database for a large number of Linux distributions. When referring to the LAMP architecture, the M stands for MySQL.Git is the leading open source revision ...

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