Best of MySQL — May 2024
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How YouTube Was Able to Support 2.49 Billion Users With MySQL
YouTube used the Vitess MySQL combination to support 2.49 billion users, overcoming scalability issues. Vitess provides an abstraction layer on top of MySQL for simplicity and scalability, using components like VTGate, VTTablet, and a key-value database.
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How Pinterest Scaled to 11 Million Users With Only 6 Engineers
Learn about Pinterest's journey of scaling to 11 million users with only 6 engineers, including the four phases of their evolution, their core technologies for scalability, the choice between clustering and sharding, and the drawbacks and solutions of sharding.
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