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How We Partitioned Airbnb’s Main Database in Two Weeks

by juanrossi on 10/10/15, 1:09 AM with 17 comments

  • by hbhakhra on 10/10/15, 7:28 AM

    This really shows the value of a few good engineers. I can easily see this taking a team of engineers much longer, but in this case a few engineers figured out the least painful solution and implemented it with minimal down time.
  • by caffeineninja on 10/10/15, 3:36 AM

    RDS wouldn't be my first choice to run in a production environment like AirBNB...
  • by gaius on 10/10/15, 7:38 AM

    Those who forget Oracle are doomed to reinvent it.