MySQL inside Google

Matt Mullenweg of Wordpress/Automattic fame is reporting from MySQLCamp talk by Google engineers. The basic ideas behind Google’s use of MySQL for replication are

  • using the cheapest hardware possible
  • replicating entire databases at a time
  • use DNS for load-balancing DB servers
  • automated way to bring up a brand new slave
  • track the most expensive query

There’s also a talk by Jeff Dean given at the University of Washington last year regarding Google’s BigTable – distributed hash project.

Posted Monday, November 13th, 2006 under MySQL, Silicon Valley, Technology, WordPress.

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