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 configuratio…
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How Slack Built Shared Channels
Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
Data Consistency Checks
Databases. They are the single source of truth for our most critical business data, yet as engineers we tend to overlook tooling with this in mind.
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