The growing pains of database architecture | Figma Blog

While these fixes moved the needle, they had limitations. By analyzing our database traffic, we learned that writes— like gathering, updating, or deleting data—contributed to a significant portion of database utilization. Additionally, not all reads or data fetching could be moved to replicas due to application sensitivity to replication lag. So, from both a read and write perspective, we still ne

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Figmaが2020年頃に行ったDB垂直分割について。なぜ水平ではダメだったのかや、分割すべきテーブルの特定、オンラインでの移行について。