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MyRocks: How Facebook Cut MySQL Storage Nearly in Half
Why Facebook replaced InnoDB with MyRocks, an LSM-tree storage engine built on RocksDB, to shrink storage footprint across its huge MySQL fleet.
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S3 and Object Storage Design Patterns That Scale
Key design patterns for using S3-style object storage well, from key naming schemes to lifecycle policies, and the mistakes that cause throttling at scale.
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Haystack: Why Facebook Threw Out Filesystems for Photo Storage
How Facebook's Haystack replaced a filesystem-per-photo approach with a purpose-built object store to eliminate the metadata bottleneck of billions of images.
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