[ericbarrett]

FB's MySQL team gave a tech talk on sharing circa 2011. A couple of bright engineers from Pinterest were there and asked a lot of great questions. A year or two later the same gentlemen presented their own MySQL infra at the Percona (?) conference. They'd used that talk as a springboard for their own design, which was quite clever and clearly integrated some of their unique business needs.

A decade later, I still remember how good their presentation was! I wish I could remember the engineers' names.

[smaccona]

Was it these guys[0]?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYnrtjO-Ne0

[phendrenad2]

God, I'm building a big MySQL schema right now, and I wish I had read this months ago! Too late for me now. Oh well, next project!

[ericbarrett]

Yes! Marty Weiner and Yashh Nelapati. Appears to be a different talk though. Nice find.