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How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
Our nine month journey to horizontally shard Figma’s Postgres stack, and the key to unlocking (nearly) infinite scalability.
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How we migrated onto K8s in less than 12 months
Migrating onto Kubernetes can take years. Here’s why we decided it was worth undertaking, and how we moved a majority of our core services.
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Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor
When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework.
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Server-side sandboxing: Containers and seccomp
An overview of containers and seccomp as sandboxing primitives
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The growing pains of database architecture
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
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Speeding up C++ build times
How we cut build times by 50% and shipped a solution for scale.