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A few months back, we faced a significant challenge with our production database running MySQL 5.7. The issue was straightforward yet daunting: our MySQL server was consuming an unexpectedly high amount of memory, leading to degraded performance and, occasionally, service interruptions. This situation prompted us to...

Zahan Malkani talked during QCon London 2024 about Meta's journey from identifying the opportunity in the market to shipping the Threads application only five months later. The company leveraged Instagram's existing monolithic architecture and quickly iterated to create a new text-first microblogging service in reco...