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Wednesday, November 18 • 4:55pm - 5:30pm
Codename VIFL - How to Migrate MySQL Database Clusters to Vitess - Guido Iaquinti & Rafael Chacon, Slack

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Have you ever considered migrating a database system at scale with no downtime? Many of us that have tried, often find it an insurmountable challenge for both developers and database engineers. Most of the time, companies start these kinds of migrations and leave them half done. This creates significant toil and costs in operations teams that have to pay the cost of running both legacy and new systems indefinitely. In this talk, Rafael and Guido will discuss how they designed and built a migration framework and then executed it to move petabytes of data from Slack's legacy database architecture to Vitess with zero downtime. The approach proposed in this framework is transparent to the application and didn't require coordination with the rest of the engineering team. It is also general enough that people considering migrating to Vitess can leverage it in their own environments.
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Guido Iaquinti

Slack
Guido is an engineer with academic background and experience in high volume/high availability Internet architectures. He is a technology enthusiast excited about open source software. His passion is to develop, scale and automate complex systems.
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Rafael Chacon

Engineer, Slack
Rafael Chacon is a Staff Software Engineer on the infrastructure team at Slack, where he is working on the MySQL database layer on top of Vitess. Rafael has been part of the team that has migrated more than 30% of Slack database traffic from MySQL to Vitess. He is also now a core... Read More →

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