The Extensibility Tax: Decisions, Principles, and Lessons from a Year of Teaching MySQL New Tricks (Steve Schirripa)

Speaker:

Steve Schirripa

System:

VillageSQL

Video:

YouTube

What does it take to add custom data types and indexes to a database that was never designed for them? Over the past year, we built an extensibility framework for MySQL — and discovered, one by one, every place the codebase assumes it knows all the types that will ever exist. This talk walks through the design decisions that survived... Read More