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October 01, 2015

September 24, 2015

The Next 50 Years of Databases

Andy attempts to revive his blog by predicting what databases will look like in the year 2065.

August 01, 2015

May 31, 2015

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March 20, 2015

Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes

Cross-posted on Google Cloud Platform Blog. Your new website is growing exponentially. After a few rounds of high fives, you start scaling to meet this unexpected demand. While you can always add more front-end servers, eventually your database becomes a bottleneck, which leads you to... Add more replicas for better read throughput and data durability Introduce sharding to scale your write throughput and let your data set grow beyond a single machine Create separate replica pools for batch jobs and backups, to isolate them from live traffic Clone the whole deployment into multiple datacenters worldwide for disaster recovery and lower latency At YouTube, we went on thatjourney as we scaled our MySQL deployment, which today handles the metadata for billions of daily video views and 300 hours of new video uploads per minute.

December 28, 2014