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It looks to me like he is saying they are planning on ditching MySQL altogether. That is probably why they don't want to invest in redoing/expanding the MySQL r
by briansmith 18y ago
It looks to me like he is saying they are planning on ditching MySQL altogether. That is probably why they don't want to invest in redoing/expanding the MySQL replication.
- chrisbolt 18y agoTwitter isn't that complicated of a website, it shouldn't take them more than a few days to migrate only the high load sections (tweets) to a sharded architecture. All they need is money for more database servers (and they have at least $15 million) and know-how. And yet they're planning to ditch MySQL in favour of... text files? And they can't even make a small MySQL cluster highly available?
- tonystubblebine 18y agoHere's an interesting proposed architecture that involves ditching MySQL: http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4182 http://randomfoo.net/blog/id/4182