“Facebook has one of the largest MySQL database clusters in the world. This cluster comprises many thousands of servers across multiple data centers on two continents.
Operating a cluster of this size with a small team is achieved by automating nearly everything a conventional MySQL Database Administrator (DBA) might do so that the cluster can almost run itself. One of the core components of this automation is a system we call MPS, short for “MySQL Pool Scanner.”
MPS is a sophisticated state machine written mostly in Python. It replaces a DBA for many routine tasks and enables us to perform maintenance operations in bulk with little or no human intervention…”
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