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Slack Engineering·Dec 6, 2020·16 min read64

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 the present…

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