24 au 26 février, 2027
Montréal, Canada
All I Wanted to Know About Sharding
Covers sharding functions beyond simple modulo and hashing, vertical (split) and horizontal sharding, rebalancing and resharding, and post-sharding reliability considerations. Lessons are drawn from 12 years of working with MySQL at scale and are broadly applicable to other databases. Will discuss considerations for Vitess and TiDB, many of which are likely also applicable to PostgreSQL Neki and other distributed solutions.
Jean-François Gagné
(self-employed)
I am Jean-François (J-F), a System Engineer and MySQL Expert with 23 years of experience, recognised as a MySQL Rockstar (2024) and MySQL Community Contributor Award recipient (2018). Over the last 12 years, I have solved reliability and scalability challenges at Booking.com, HubSpot, MessageBird, Aiven, and Proton. Before MySQL, I worked as a Linux SysAdmin, Telco Architect, and Programmer. At university, I studied Cache Consistency in Distributed Systems and Group Communication Protocols.
