Figma

How Figma's Databases Team Lived to Tell the Scale

Figma's nine-month effort to horizontally shard its Postgres stack using a custom query proxy and logical sharding before physical splits.

Published
2024-03-14
Scale
Not stated in source
Techniques
horizontal sharding query proxy online migration
Stack
PostgreSQL AWS RDS

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