“We didn’t yet know the full extent of our sync system issues, but one thing was crystal clear: we needed to scale. A lot.”— Christine Spang, nylas.comTagged: Nylas, MYSQL, Ops
“Our team knew the dangers and distractions of premature optimization, and figured the “easiest” way to shard was to avoid it for as long as possible.”— Christine Spang, nylas.comTagged: MYSQL, Scalability, Ops, Nylas
“Building an email system requires efficiently managing a huge amount of information essentially from day one. Our sync system has more data for a single user than most startup’s database of everything. To date, nearly 150k accounts have been synced by the Nylas Cloud system, and our datastore grows…”— Christine Spang, nylas.comTagged: MYSQL, Nylas, Scalability, Ops