Surge 2011 ~ Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right

You don't become the world's largest handmade marketplace without learning how to grow quickly. Etsy was launched in 2005 and soon had to figure out how to meet increasing demand. A novel approach was taken that gave the site some breathing room, but which—for a variety of reasons we'll explore—ultimately resulted in an architectural dead end. In order to survive, a course correction was made, company culture was shifted, and—thanks to battle-tested scaling strategies—Etsy's growth is now exciting instead of ominous. Let's look back at this turbulent period in Etsy's architectural history and examine the cultural and technical challenges that got us to where we are today.

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[jumbowumbofumbo]

@jerryji He said that they inherited the scheme from Flickr, my guess is that's why they switched from Postgres.

[Jerry Ji]

I'm very curious to learn more details on how sharding PostgreSQL is so inferior to sharding MySQL in 2011 that the introduction of a second database system is justified?