Here is the quick notes from the session scaling heavy concurrent writes in real time by Dathan Pattishall. Its bad that he left Flickr i.e. Yahoo. Hopefully they will find a replacement, if not contact me I have few people who are interested.
- Who am I
- since 1999 working on mysql (http://www.mysql.com)
- scaled many companies (FriendFinder, Friendster, Flickr, now RockYou)
- Favorites federation, partitioning, shards, RAID-10
- Requirements
- scale better
- store data forever
- associate time with the data
- allow for change
- keep it cheap
- and downtime is not an option
- Spread