Shard Splits with Consistent Snapshots
At Square, we have a lot of data being inserted into our databases. To make it possible for MySQL to handle the load, we shard the data using Vitess. Because...
Cross-Shard Queries & Lookup Tables
Sharding Cash’s database with Vitess was a massive undertaking that set us up for the future, but it was just the start of the journey. The sheer rate of growth...
Abstracting Sharding with Vitess and Distributed Deadlocks
One of the main reasons Vitess was such a success for Cash App is that it abstracts database sharding away from the application code. This allowed us to shard our...
Remodeling Cash App Payments
Before we could partition our database we needed to prepare our data model. Here’s how we turned a simple normalized data model into one that could be partitioned for scale....
Sharding Cash
As we approach the end of 2018, we’re celebrating the anniversary of the first shard split for Cash App with a series of blog posts explaining how we used Vitess...
Announcing Okio 2
At Square, we’re excited about Kotlin. It’s a capable language to build Java libraries and applications with. We love to write code that is both compact and efficient.