Shopify

Shard Balancing: Moving Shops Confidently with Zero-Downtime at Terabyte-scale

Shopify rebalances MySQL shards by moving individual shops online with its Ghostferry tool.

Published
2021-09-24
Scale
terabyte scale
Techniques
shard rebalancing online migration zero downtime
Stack
MySQL Ghostferry

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