“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.com
“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.com
“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.com