Pinterest
Why Pinterest Bet on Sharded MySQL Over NoSQL
Pinterest hit early scaling walls, tried NoSQL alternatives, then built ID-encoded sharded MySQL instead — and it outlasted the exotic options.
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Uber
Schemaless: How Uber Scaled MySQL Instead of Abandoning It
Why Uber built Schemaless, an append-only document layer on top of sharded MySQL, instead of migrating wholesale to a NoSQL database.
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Slack
How Slack Used Vitess to Scale MySQL Without Leaving SQL
Why Slack adopted Vitess to shard MySQL horizontally at the connection-pooling and proxy layer instead of migrating off relational storage entirely.
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