Paul Tuckfield
Senior DBA, YouTube

Paul has been a sysadmin, DBA or something in between for 25 years, if you count college jobs. In this century, he’s helped build the infrastructure for many startups , notably PayPal and Youtube, as a database architecture and scalability expert. Currently Paul is the manager of the architecture, database, sysadmin and data warehousing groups at YouTube.

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9:15am Wednesday, 04/16/2008

Scaling MySQL - Up or Out?

Keynote
Location: Ballroom E

Kaj Arnö (SkySQL Ab), John Allspaw (Etsy.com), Jeff Rothschild (Facebook.com), Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud), Domas Mituzas (Facebook), Paul Tuckfield (YouTube), Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)

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This lively panel discussion keynote will address the challenges large, modern web properties face in scaling MySQL. Panelists from Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr pair up with MySQL engineers in discussing the current and future problem domain and possible solutions. Read more.

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Paul Tuckfield Senior DBA, YouTube