Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess - Slack Engineering
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 fo...
Hasnain says:
“This success still begs the question: Was this the right choice? In Spanish, there is a saying that states: “Como anillo al dedo”. It is often used when a solution fits with great exactitude. We think that even with the benefit of hindsight, Vitess was the right solution for us. This doesn’t mean that if Vitess didn’t exist, we would have not figured out how to scale our datastores. Rather, that with our requirements, we would have landed on a solution that would be very similar to Vitess. In a way, this story is not only about how Slack scaled its datastores. It is also a story that tells the importance of collaboration in our industry. “
Posted on 2020-12-08T05:11:00+0000