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Tuesday, November 19 • 11:50am - 12:25pm
Scaling Resilient Systems: A Journey into Slack's Database Service - Rafael Chacon & Guido Iaquinti, Slack

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Monitoring and observability are important concepts, especially in complex and distributed systems. Redundancy and defensive programming are important as well, but sometimes they are not enough. Designing systems to minimize the blast radius when the unexpected happens is often the key.

In this talk, Rafael and Guido will share an overview about how Slack designed, built, scaled and then iterated to improve its distributed database service based on top of Vitess, now a CNCF project. The Databases team at Slack scaled a Vitess cluster from 0 to spikes of 2.7 Million queries per second. This journey has taught us how to operate a database cluster with more than 2000 nodes and expecting to growth to more than 3500 in the next 12 months.
Speakers
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Guido Iaquinti

Site Reliability Engineer, Freelance
Guido is a system 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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Tuesday November 19, 2019 11:50am - 12:25pm PST
Ballroom Sec 20AB - San Diego Convention Center Upper Level
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