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How We Built a Zero-Downtime Database Migration Service at Wix
The Challenge At Wix, multiple applications share the same DB cluster. The reasons vary: consolidating apps from the same domain, grouping several small apps that don’t justify a dedicated cluster, or simply optimizing cost and operational overhead. However, this setup comes with a significant risk: every application on the cluster has the potential to impact all the others. One real example: we had a critical service related to user authentication sharing a DB cluster with s
Wix Engineering
May 147 min read
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