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Scaling Relational Databases at Nextdoor

Ronak ShahSlava Markeyev16 minutes

In this Monster Scale Summit Presentation

Scaling datastores for existing applications without impacting business logic and development is tricky. This talk explores Nextdoor’s scalability journey and our most recent solution.

Ronak Shah, Software Engineer, Nextdoor

I am Ronak Shah, a part of the Core Services team at Nextdoor. My interests revolve around distributed systems, scalability, and caching challenges.

Slava Markeyev, Software Engineer, Nextdoor

Slava joined Nextdoor in 2016 and currently works on the Core Services team where he drives projects to keep the platform scaleable and performant. He’s worked on everything from debugging with Wireshark to building critical high throughput services from the ground up.