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Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess
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…
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Databases & DataSystems & Performance2020
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Dec 6, 2020 | Scaling Datastores at Slack with Vitess by talonx | 99 | 34 |
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