Lessons learned while evolving Boxs database infrastructure
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.
| Talk Title | Lessons learned while evolving Boxs database infrastructure |
| Speakers | Tamar Bercovici (Box) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Building and maintaining complex distributed systems |
| Location | San Jose, California |
| Date | June 12-14, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
| Video | Talk Video |
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. Along the way, Tamar shares tips and lessons learned from her experience on this evolutionary path as well as some of the new challenges the team is tackling next.
