This is a bit technical, but most of you are in IT – A good interview over at IT Conversations:
“In mid 2006, YouTube served approximately 100 million videos in a single day. To maintain a website of that scale, one would imagine YouTube has hundreds of DBAs. But in fact, there are just three people that make it all work. Paul Tuckfield, the MySQL DBA at YouTube shares horror stories about scalability at YouTube and how he coped with them to keep the show going everyday, while learning important lessons along the way.”
I was going to outline all of the good things this says about both Open Source software, and about the MySQL software itself, but I’ll just let the interview stand on it’s own.
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