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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
Last January, the DB Infra team at Wix embarked on a strategic and very important mission: Migrating all of our MySQL EC2 servers from Intel based CPUs to the new shiny Graviton ones. Not only will this allow us to work on better CPUs, saving us money and improving our databases, we’ll be able to move to Amazon Linux 2023 OS and move from the EOL CentOS 7.0. That sounds simple enough, until you realize that we’re dealing with over 1K servers spread over 160+ MySQL clusters.
