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For storing things other than git repos, GitHub is heavily invested in MySQL. AFAIK all of GitHub is hosted on their own hardware. https://githubengineering.co
by sciurus 8y ago
For storing things other than git repos, GitHub is heavily invested in MySQL. AFAIK all of GitHub is hosted on their own hardware.
https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-github/ https://githubengineering.com/mysql-high-availability-at-git...
- rurban 8y agoThis blog post describes exactly the scenario we were experiencing here. A master (single writer) failure, with missing fail over. You can only guess what went wrong with this plan. Looks good on paper, but some unexpected network or HW or routing problem could have caused the problem to identify the single writer.