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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 Systems Databases MySQL Vitess Database Sharding Architectural Migration

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