go-mysql is a pure-Go library for the MySQL and MariaDB ecosystem. Rather than a single application, it exposes a layered set of packages and command-line tools: a low-level packet/protocol layer, a full client connection library, a MySQL-compatible server framework, a binlog replication parser and syncer, a higher-level change-data-capture (CDC) engine called canal, a mysqldump wrapper, and a database/sql driver. The command binaries (`go-mysqlbinlog`, `go-mysqldump`, `go-canal`, `go-mysqlserver`, `go-binlogparser`) demonstrate concrete uses of the library, but the real product is the reusable code surface. The core data flow for replication is: the `replication.BinlogSyncer` connects as a MySQL replica, registers for binlog dump, receives raw binlog frames, and parses them into typed events (`RowsEvent`, `TableMapEvent`, `GTIDEvent`, `QueryEvent`, etc.). The `canal` package layers on top of this by first taking a snapshot through `dump.Dumper` and then streaming subsequent binlog events through a handler interface, making it suitable for feeding downstream stores like Elasticsearch or Redis. The `client` and `server` packages implement the query side of the protocol, including authentication, prepared statements, streaming result sets, TLS, compression, and connection pooling. The `driver` package adapts this to Go's standard `database/sql` interface. The codebase is mature and heavily tested, with CI matrices covering MySQL 8.0/8.4/9.7 and MariaDB 10.11/11.4/11.8, plus fuzz test corpora for GTID and binlog decoding. It also contains notable compatibility engineering: hand-written decoders for MySQL binary JSON, decimal, `datetime2`, `time2`, GTID sets, and row events, all validated against live-server behavior. The main risks are protocol drift and manual maintenance: the error-code mapping ends around MySQL 1863, some binary resultset helpers are deprecated or inconsistent, and much of the value depends on keeping pace with new MySQL/MariaDB binlog event formats. Overall, this is a high-quality, industrially relevant library with strong reuse potential for anyone building MySQL tooling, CDC pipelines, or protocol-compatible servers in Go.