Archive For July 16, 2008

Flickr DB Architecture

I’ve been collecting scaling stories for some time now and last week I came across the following run down on Fliker scaling: Federation at Flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day by Dathan Vance Pattishall, the Flickr database guy. The Flickr DB Architecture is sharded with a PHP access layer to maintain consistency. Flickr users…

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