MySQL, arguably the most popular relational database, is used
pretty extensively at the popular professional social network
LinkedIn. At Percona Live ONLINE 2020, the company’s flagship
event held online for the first time due to the Covid-19
pandemic, Karthik Appigatla from LinkedIN’s database SRE team
discussed the company’s approach to securing their database
deployment without introducing operational hiccups or adversely
affecting performance.
Instead of just performing admin duties, Karthik’s team builds
automated tools to scale their infrastructure, and he talked
about some of these tailored tools in his presentation. The
database SREs on his team also work with the developers at
LinkedIn and help them streamline their applications to make best
use of the database.
Talking about LinkedIn’s reliance on MySQL, Karthik said that not
only do all their infrastructural tools rely on MySQL, many of
the internal …
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