July 2019
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16m
English
case study
How Box evolved its database infrastructure to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset
by Tamar Bercovici
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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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