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2nd March 2009 - Link Blog

Database Sharding at Netlog, with MySQL and PHP. Detailed MySQL sharding case study from Netlog, who serve five billion page requests a month using thousands of shards across more than 80 database servers.

Posted 2nd March 2009 at 10:22 am

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