Session
Scaling the World’s Largest Photo Blogging Community
Farhan Mashraqi, DBA, Fotolog
Track: Replication and Scale-Out
Date: Tuesday, April 24
Time: 5:30pm
- 6:15pm
Location: Ballroom D
Fotolog is the world’s largest photo blogging social network, boasting more than 400,000 new photos per day and more than 2 billion page views a month. More than 5 million fotologgers communicate and connect through their photos on Fotolog. With the help of MySQL, Fotolog has scaled to become a top 35 destination on the Internet according to Alexa (Nov 7, 2006).
In this presentation, get an insightful look into the workings of Fotolog with Fotolog’s DBA Frank. Learn about how MySQL fits into Fotolog’s Web 2.0 architecture; the techniques used to scale-out, optimize, and administer MySQL; and the applied examples of performance and data storage with storage engine optimization. Attendees will also learn about real-life security and administration best practices.