Etsy Engineering11 min readMar 19, 2026

Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data and is made up of ~1,000 tables distributed across ~1,000 shards. Over the

Distributed Systems Databases

MySQLVitessKubernetesDatabase ShardingLarge Scale System

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When buyers search on Etsy, they need to quickly and easily find the perfect item. At the same time, sellers need to be confident their unique products are...

Etsy Engineering11 minJan 16, 2026

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance

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