Code as Craft

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 […]

Percona’s Xtrabackup is a great product. It performs binary backups of heavily loaded Mysql servers amazingly fast. We’ve used it here at Etsy for years and works very well for us. Mysqldump is another way of doing backups, but for servers with hundreds of gigabytes of data, it’s too slow to be useful, especially for […]