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In the early days of YouTube, there were scalability problems with the MySQL database that hosted the data model for all of YouTube’s videos. The state of the art solution to scaling MySQL at the time was known as “application-level sharding.” To scale a database using application-level sharding, you break up the database into shards–disjoint
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Zoox is a full-stack self-driving car company. Zoox engineers work on everything a self-driving car company needs, from the physical car itself to the algorithms running on the car to the ride hailing system which the company plans to use to drive around riders. Since starting in 2014, Zoox has grown to over 500 employees.
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PlanetScale: Sharded Database Management with Jiten Vaidya and Dan Kozlowski
In the early days of YouTube, there were scalability problems with the MySQL database that hosted the data model for all of YouTube’s videos. The state of the art solution to scaling MySQL at the time was known as...
Zoox Self-Driving with Ethan Dreyfuss
Zoox is a full-stack self-driving car company. Zoox engineers work on everything a self-driving car company needs, from the physical car itself to the algorithms running on the car to the ride hailing system which the company...
Store2Vec: DoorDash Recommendations with Mitchell Koch
DoorDash is a food delivery company where users find restaurants to order from. When a user opens the DoorDash app, the user can search for types of food or specific restaurants from the search bar or they can scroll through the...
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