tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314876008291942531.post8090553691445104334..comments2024-01-14T00:36:43.430-08:00Comments on Antonio Gulli's coding playground: Facebook infrastructure and dataUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314876008291942531.post-70823902605791150882013-10-24T21:45:59.423-07:002013-10-24T21:45:59.423-07:00Since Timeline is more concerned about organizing ...Since Timeline is more concerned about organizing data neatly than shooting out updates in real time, MySQL is well suited for the app. Although the data is aggregated in the same location as the data is kept (i.e. not over a network connection), that data is managed by MySQL, and not an alternative like NoSQL or Hadoop Hbase.Authenticsochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12964244504299345221noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314876008291942531.post-84314527801184294362010-06-18T13:30:45.873-07:002010-06-18T13:30:45.873-07:00Why wouldn't Facebook use mysql?
They've ...Why wouldn't Facebook use mysql?<br /><br />They've been using it for some time and, if used as a key/value store heavily partitioned so the working set is mostly in memory, mysql is so fast that I very much doubt the considerable effort to switch from it would be attractive. After all, there's no software project more dangerous and prone to failure than rewriting a lot of code without any clear purpose.<br /><br />Last time I checked, Amazon and Google still use mysql in some of their systems. Why wouldn't Facebook?Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314876008291942531.post-22383851877158940332010-06-15T14:25:31.786-07:002010-06-15T14:25:31.786-07:00why they still use mysql?why they still use mysql?codingplaygroundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08478993186814330588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314876008291942531.post-7339167289510542792010-06-14T07:12:58.313-07:002010-06-14T07:12:58.313-07:00The parts of the talk on culture (especially rapid...The parts of the talk on culture (especially rapid iteration, small teams, keeping developers in control of their own products) are also worthwhile. A good summary of that is at<br /><br />http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/6/10/the-four-meta-secrets-of-scaling-at-facebook.htmlGreg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.com