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How Box evolved its database infrastructure to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset
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How Box evolved its database infrastructure to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset

by Tamar Bercovici
July 2019
16m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Closed Captioning available in German, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Overview

When Tamar Bercovici joined Box, the entire platform was running on a single MySQL DB host fronted by a simple pool of memcached servers. Tamar details how the team has evolved the Box database stack to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset. It now comprises hundreds of servers serving millions of queries per second over hundreds of billions of data records.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0636920421498