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dotScale 2013 MySQL Talk
Original post is here eklausmeier.goip.de/blog/2013/09-23-dotscale-2013-mysql-talk.
Very interesting talk on the scaling challenge at WordPress.com given by Barry Abrahamson, CTO of WordPress.
Some key points:
- 500 million database tables
- 3 data centers in USA
- 400.000 shards moved per day
- storage on SSD
- ~10% of total infrastructure costs are related to backups
- ~500 GB / shard
- 50 million sites
- 2.200 servers, and 500 database servers
Compare this with infrastructure costs for WordPress.