The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems to Vitess using vindexes, enabling capabilities such as resharding data and sharding previously unsharded tables.

Google Cloud has outlined its recent technical contributions to PostgreSQL, emphasizing improvements in logical replication, upgrade processes, and overall system stability. The update reflects ongoing collaboration with the upstream community and focuses on enhancements to the core engine aimed at addressing scalability, replication, and operational challenges.