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I’d be surprised by this: GitHub pretty famously used Vitess, and I’d be surprised if each shard were too big for modern hardware. Based on previous reporting [
by akshayshah 8mo ago
I’d be surprised by this: GitHub pretty famously used Vitess, and I’d be surprised if each shard were too big for modern hardware. Based on previous reporting [0], they’re running out of space in the main data center and new management is determined to move to Azure in a hurry. I’d bet that these outages are a combination of a worsening capacity crunch in the old data center and…well, Azure.
[0]: https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-azure-over-feature-development/ https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
- tibbar 8mo agoHere’s a post from 2021 about the migration! [0] I guess 2021 is a long time ago now. How did that happen… [0] https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/partitioning-githubs-relational-databases-scale/ https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/partitioning-...