Yoshinori Matsunobu is a database engineer and MySQL tech lead at Facebook, where he created MyRocks, the RocksDB storage engine for MySQL. He led the migration of Facebook’s two largest database backends from InnoDB to MyRocks, cutting the number of servers they required by more than half. Before MyRocks he created MHA (Master High Availability), an automated MySQL primary failover tool widely used across the industry. Earlier in his career he was a database and infrastructure architect at DeNA in Tokyo, and he is a frequent speaker at FOSDEM, Percona Live, and other MySQL conferences.
Yoshinori Matsunobu
Creator of MyRocks and MHA, and MySQL tech lead at Facebook.