In this chapter, you learned how to extend MySQL 8 through custom functions and APIs. You also got to know about writing functions and the associated characteristics of the plugin services and APIs. You can now create your own function or plugin, cater to specific business requirements, and also debug if a function does not work as per expectations, and test whether it does.
In next chapter, you will learn about MySQL 8 best practices and benchmarking in MySQL 8. You will learn about benchmarking and tools used for benchmarking. You will also learn best practices for some of very important features of MySQL 8, such as memcached, replication, data partitioning, and indexing.
