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26 October 2025

Linux ext4 block size improvement

This is likely to become a big deal for running page based databases, such as InnoDB (MySQL/MariaDB) on ext4 and could potentially reduce the number of new deployments using xfs.


21 January 2015

LinkedIn's MySQL Use Case

As many know, I have been working within the Espresso team at LinkedIn since 2012. Espresso is a schema-ed document store built upon MySQL.

Introducing Espresso - LinkedIn's hot new distributed document store

We eventually hope to open-source a version of Espresso which doesn't use LinkedIn's internal proprietary APIs.