MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% less latency variance

Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by wahnfrieden on Friday June 26, 2015 @05:43PM (#9787930)

Zynga bet on being able to build out their own datacenter cheaper than what it cost them on AWS. They took this experiment very far and ultimately couldn't beat AWS. There're a lot of hidden costs when you consider AWS-level datacenter management vs. the type of comparisons you might be used to looking at simple dedicated hardware vs. AWS offerings.

Random Google result about this: http://readwrite.com/2015/05/12/zynga-data-center-amazon-aws...

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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by granto on Friday June 26, 2015 @06:29PM (#9788125)

Zynga's case was more nuanced than that story leads on. Zynga built out its datacenter capacity assuming a base line of users, which in hindsight, was optimistic and left them with significant excess capacity and costs.

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Re:MySQL performance optimization: 50% more work with 60% le... by icelancer on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:05PM (#9788447)

Well... this is kind of a selling point of AWS... isn't it? So it's not just "nuance," it's actually a feature.

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