“Winter is coming” - Ned Stark, Game of Thrones Au contraire, autumn is the season to warn us of upcoming challenges - the most extreme growth and workload period of the whole year. In fact, we coined the term - ‘Vinted Autumn’. Our main MySQL databases were taking a massive beating every autumn despite sharding them vertically multiple times. While managing a dozen physical servers is an ok task, managing 42 servers manually is quite cumbersome. Additionally, the process of vertical ...
