MySQL at Slack: How it works today and why Vitess is the future

Overview:
Slack is in the midst of transitioning the MySQL infrastructure at the core of our service to use Vitess instead of the current application-based shard routing and manual administration. In this meetup, we'll talk about the landscape of how things work today, what drove Slack to pick Vitess as the future, and how we went about laying the groundwork for the switch. With that in mind, we will go over some challenges and surprises (both good and bad) found during our initial migration efforts, and suggest improvements for the Vitess ecosystem that can aid future migration efforts.

Bio:

Mike Demmer is a Senior Staff Engineer on the Slack Infrastructure team working on hard problems of scalability and reliability, and leading the development of Slack's next generation database architecture. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Jut -- a startup applying a new dataflow language to observability for developers and operations engineers. Prior to that, he was at Riverbed where he was part of the founding development team for the Steelhead WAN accelerator and led the Pilot/Shark team building network analytics products based on the wireshark open source packet capture technology. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and is passionate about large scale distributed systems and performance.

6:30 - 7:00 -- Doors open/general socializing & food
7:00 - 7:15 -- Intro/announcements
7:15 - 8:00(ish) -- Main presentation
8:00 - 8:30 -- General discussion/Q&A/networking/etc.
8:30ish -- post-event socializing... aka beers someplace nearby

Sponsors:

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