Slashdot's History of Scaling MySQL - Table of Contents

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