December 13, 2019

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Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into Kubernetes

Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into Kubernetes

In early 2017, HubSpot faced a growing problem: our MySQL infrastructure was complex, expensive, and failing to scale. Hundreds of databases running on more than a thousand EC2 instances were managed …

Talk Title Vitess at HubSpot: How We Moved Hundreds of MySQL Databases into Kubernetes
Speakers Alex Charis (Senior Software Engineer, HubSpot), Tom Petr (Engineering Lead, HubSpot)
Conference KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America
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Location Seattle, WA, USA
Date Dec 9-14, 2018
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In early 2017, HubSpot faced a growing problem: our MySQL infrastructure was complex, expensive, and failing to scale. Hundreds of databases running on more than a thousand EC2 instances were managed by just one person, and developers were getting fed up and began to migrate to other higher performance but non-relational datastores. We surveyed the landscape and decided to address these challenges by adopting Vitess and Kubernetes. This talk will detail our journey towards MySQL cloud-native nirvana. We’ll cover lessons learned, bugs squashed, and tools built – including the design and operation of our very own Kubernetes operator for Vitess. Attendees will walk away with a better understanding of what it takes to reliably manage and scale MySQL databases in Kubernetes, and how Vitess is a great tool for the job.

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