This presentation discusses high-availability techniques, sharding fundamentals, third-party technologies, and how to decrease the likelihood of system outages. It covers the following topics:
- Hardware specifications to consider
- Functionally sharding your data
- Why to use various topologies such as a relay slave, master-master replication, or circular replication for high availability
- Failover mechanisms you should consider with replication, such as keepalived and heartbeat
- How to safely and reliably replicate over a WAN for disaster recovery
- Mixing up storage engines (leveraging the Blackhole engine, for instance)
- Third-party options for sharding your data
Presenter: Chris Schneider
