Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess

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Arka Ganguli, Guido Iaquinti, Maggie Zhou, and Rafael Chacón. "Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess." slack.engineering, December 2020. Archived at perma.cc/UW8F-ALJK

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Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess | Engineering at Slack

From the very beginning of Slack, MySQL was used as the storage engine for all our data. Slack operated MySQL servers in an active-active configuration. This is the story of how we changed our data storage architecture from the active-active clusters over to Vitess — a horizontal scaling system for MySQL. Vitess is the present…

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