Optimizing MySQL to Let People Argue

In this presentation, Jeremy Bingham will discuss battling hardware, dealing with legacy designs that were fine once but weren’t scaling, getting the most out of limited computing resources, improving database limits by cheating as much as possible, making the most of what was available, overcoming MySQL itself, and sometimes even overcoming his own boneheaded decisions that seemed like good ideas at the time. He will also discuss how each election cycle required its own optimizations and talk about the progression of optimization tricks through the years, each cycle building on or throwing out the improvements of before.