AdWords
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2015 by Spencer Kimball · across every show →
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Jun 19, 2015
Kimball: Google expanded its MySQL AdWords backend to 1,000 shards before replacement
“And I ran into this, like, really head first, like, into a brick wall when I got to Google in 2002, and they were using sharded MySQL in order to run their AdWords backend, and they went from, like, eight shards to 12 shards to 30 shards. By the time they repl…”
Oct 17, 2018
Google runs AdWords across five data centers to guarantee fault tolerance
“This isn't just sort of a, you know, a random example. This is how Google runs their AdWords system. With five data centers, and the reason is that you can actually have a planned maintenance on a data center, and actually have an unplanned, ah, outage on anot…”