Code as Craft

People are passionate about where they live. At Etsy we need to keep track of lots of different locations, such as buyers’ billing and shipping addresses and sellers’ shop locations. As Etsy continues to expand internationally we wanted to provide better localization and translations for our location place names. We determined that the best way […]

We’ve previously written about our sharded master-master pair database architecture and how that and the Etsy ORM allows us to perform schema changes while keeping the site up. That we can do this at all is really awesome but to actually do this is still hard, risky and time-consuming. We run the site on half of our database […]