MySQL at Yahoo!
• 20 - 50 servers world-wide
– Mission-critical (we lose money if they stop)
• FreeBSD and Linux
• Commodity hardware
• Replaces Oracle in some cases
• Replaces home-grown storage in others
• Data growing rapidly
• Used “live” and in batch processing
• Replication and load-balancing
Copyright 2002, Jeremy Zawodny (Jeremy@Zawodny.com)