Migrating Etsy’s database sharding to Vitess

Etsy has maintained a sharded MySQL architecture since around 2010. This database cluster contains most of Etsy’s online data...

Ella Yarmo-Gray

19 mar 2026

Enhancing Cloud Usage Forecasting, Monitoring & Optimizing

In 2020, Etsy concluded its migration from an on-premise data center to the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). During this transition,...

Anthony Tambasco

17 jun 2024

Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 3 – Reducing Cutover Risk

Between Dec 2020 and May 2022, the Etsy Payments Platform, Database Reliability Engineering and Data Access Platform teams moved...

David Leibovic

22 feb 2023

Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 2 – The “Seamless” Migration

Between Dec 2020 and May 2022, the Etsy Payments Platform, Database Reliability Engineering and Data Access Platform teams moved...

Keith Wells

22 feb 2023

Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 1 – The Data Model

At the end of 2020, Etsy’s Payments databases were in urgent need of scaling. Specifically, two of our databases were no longer...

River Rainne

22 feb 2023

Adding Zonal Resiliency to Etsy’s Kafka Cluster: Part 2

The first time I performed a live upgrade of Etsy's Kafka brokers, it felt exciting. There was a bit of an illicit thrill in taking...

Kamya Shethia

9 feb 2023

Adding Zonal Resiliency to Etsy’s Kafka Cluster: Part 1

In 2018, with its decision to choose Google Cloud Platform as its provider, Etsy began a long project of migration to the cloud....

Andrey Polyakov

31 ene 2023

Improving the Deployment Experience of a Ten-Year Old Application

In 2018, Etsy migrated its service infrastructure from self-managed data centers to cloud provisioning. (We blogged about it at...

Rachel King

15 jun 2021

How Etsy Prepared for Historic Volumes of Holiday Traffic in 2020

The Challenge For Etsy, 2020 was a year of unprecedented and volatile growth. (Simply on a human level it was also a profoundly...

Mike Adler

25 feb 2021

Cloud Jewels: Estimating kWh in the Cloud

Etsy has been increasingly enjoying the perks of public cloud infrastructure for a few years, but has been missing a crucial feature:...

Emily Sommer

23 abr 2020

G-Scout Enterprise and Cloud Security at Etsy

As companies are moving to the cloud, they are finding a need for security tooling to audit and analyze their cloud environments....

Angelo Mellos

18 nov 2019

Apotheosis: A GCP Privilege Escalation Tool

The Principle of Least Privilege One of the most fundamental principles of information security is the principle of least privilege....

Angelo Mellos

25 sept 2019