On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Mark Fowler <m...@twoshortplanks.com> wrote: > > So, > > It's nearly the new year and the time for new projects. On my project radar > for next year is "consider (better) sharding our MySQL database."
There's a bunch of articles on Flickr out there, this one seems pretty decent, http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture P > > Now I understand the basic principles behind this and can, if needs be, > implement my own wheel, but before I do I'd love to find out what everyone > else is doing. Are there any good reference sites out there - MySQL sharding > success stories if you will - and how did they do it? I'm pretty sure that > everyone does it slightly differently but the more things I can look at > before considering my own implementation, the better. > > Hot technologies (by which I mean what blogs and google have been throwing at > me recently) include: > > - Spock Proxy > - MySQL Clustering > - Implementing it at the app level. > > What's the collective group think on these? Obviously (for this list, at > least) the app that will be accessing the database is Perl based, so I'm only > considering compatible technologies at the moment. > > Mark.
