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> . As far as I'm aware Facebook's ad platform is mostly backed by hundreds of thousands of Mysql instances. Same for YouTube itself https://www.mysql.com/cust

by judge2020 5y ago

> . As far as I'm aware Facebook's ad platform is mostly backed by hundreds of thousands of Mysql instances. Same for YouTube itself https://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=750 https://www.mysql.com/customers/view/?id=750 and they use Vitess for horizontal scaling: https://vitess.io/ https://vitess.io/

emptysea 5y ago
YouTube has since migrated to Spanner, there’s a podcast episode with one of the Vitess creators that covers the politics of the switch
- ochoseis 5y ago
  That sounds interesting — do you have a link?
  - emptysea 5y ago
    Yeah it was a source graph episode from a bit ago: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/ https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/