MySQL, arguably the most popular relational database, is used pretty extensively at the popular professional social network LinkedIn. At Percona Live ONLINE 2020, the company’s flagship event held online for the first time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Karthik Appigatla from LinkedIN’s database SRE team discussed the company’s approach to securing their database deployment without introducing operational hiccups or adversely affecting performance.
Instead of just performing admin duties, Karthik’s team builds automated tools to scale their infrastructure, and he talked about some of these tailored tools in his presentation. The database SREs on his team also work with the developers at LinkedIn and help them streamline their applications to make best use of the database.
Talking about LinkedIn’s reliance on MySQL, Karthik said that not only do all their infrastructural tools rely on MySQL, many of the internal …
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