World Congress 2023 • Oct 6, 2023

Swapping Low Latency Data Storage Under High Load

George Asafev

How do you migrate 140 million accounts at 100,000 requests per second with zero downtime? Uncover the DynamoDB strategy Miro used to slash core latency by 4x.

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Solving architectural challenges during rapid public cloud migrations

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Migrating legacy backend infrastructure with zero user downtime

Tomislav Tipurić

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Audience questions on database performance, deployments, and data migrations

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Executing massive cloud network migrations while maintaining live systems

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The database outage that inspired the creation of Dynamo

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Final performance results and key architectural takeaways

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