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  • Migrating 50 Production Databases to Aurora with Under 3 Minutes of Downtime

    In Writing 1588 words 8 min

    AwsDatabaseTerraformCloud

    Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …

    Over about two years, we migrated around 50 production databases from on-premises MySQL to AWS Aurora. The largest were multi-terabyte, tier-0 systems with 24/7 write traffic. Most cutovers took under 3 minutes of downtime. That number is not the …

  • Vitess vs Aurora: Making the Right MySQL Scaling Decision

    In Writing 4009 words 19 min

    DatabaseMysqlHigh-AvailabilityAws

    If you’ve outgrown single-instance MySQL, you’re facing an uncomfortable choice: build custom sharding logic into your application, migrate to a different database system, or adopt a clustering solution like Vitess. Here’s the short version, so you …

    If you’ve outgrown single-instance MySQL, you’re facing an uncomfortable choice: build custom sharding logic into your application, migrate to a different database system, or adopt a clustering solution like Vitess. Here’s the short version, so you …