{"id":640,"date":"2007-10-11T01:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T06:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/11\/moving-to-another-shard"},"modified":"2007-10-15T01:30:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T06:30:48","slug":"moving-to-another-shard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/11\/moving-to-another-shard","title":{"rendered":"Moving to another shard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must be moving to another shard, having outgrown my current one. Its a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/25\/federation-at-flickr-a-tour-of-the-flickr-architecture\">manual operation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bytebot.net\/shots\/flickr-db-migration.png\" \/><br \/><i>Flickr tells me they&#8217;re moving my stuff around<\/i><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Incidentally, I can&#8217;t sign out. Or view the main page. Or any of the groups I&#8217;m subscribed to. Its completely locked. But it does take under-15 minutes&#8230; (at least for the load I have &#8211; ~11,500 images).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> Read <a href=\"http:\/\/kitchensoap.com\/\">John Allspaw<\/a>&#8216;s comments at the <a href=\"http:\/\/highscalability.com\/how-flickr-handles-moving-you-another-shard\">HighScalability link<\/a> to this blog post. He&#8217;s in-charge of operations, and an all round nice guy, and great presenter.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/flickr\" rel=\"tag\">flickr<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/shard\" rel=\"tag\">shard<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/moving\" rel=\"tag\">moving<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must be moving to another shard, having outgrown my current one. Its a manual operation. Flickr tells me they&#8217;re moving my stuff around Incidentally, I can&#8217;t sign out. Or view the main page. Or any of the groups I&#8217;m subscribed to. Its completely locked. But it does take under-15 minutes&#8230; (at least for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-ak","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}