Slashdot's History of Scaling MySQL - Table of Contents

1. Slash History
2. Background
3. Early Optimizing
4. Problems with early Solutions
5. Next round of solutions: Users
6. Next round of solutions: Stories & Comments
7. Heap tables
8. Next round of solutions: Searches
9. Slash 2.x starts serving Slashdot
10. You wake one morning to 3X traffic
11. Where do we find out problems?
12. Authors Causing Problems
13. Story table
14. Comments
15. Replication Issues
16. Move to making more content static
17. Writer with Multiple Readers
18. Special Writers for Special Tasks
19. Tuning Issues
20. Dealing With Growth
21. Policies
22. Future