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

Video description

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.

Product information

  • Title: How Box evolved its database infrastructure to handle an ever-growing query load and dataset
  • Author(s): Tamar Bercovici
  • Release date: July 2019
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0636920421474