> The idea of creating an abstraction layer over thousands of MySQL nodes is a novel one, and should be commended Twitter did it eight years ago with Gizzard.

> The idea of creating an abstraction layer over thousands of MySQL nodes is a novel one, and should be commended Twitter did it eight years ago with Gizzard. See http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-stores-250-million-tweets-a-day-using-mysql.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/12/19/how-twitter-store... and https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/introducing-gizzard-a-framework-for-creating-distributed-datastores.html https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2010/introducin...