Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 3 – Reducing Cutover Risk

Between Dec 2020 and May 2022, the Etsy Payments Platform, Database Reliability Engineering and Data Access Platform teams moved...

David Leibovic

Feb 22, 2023

Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 2 – The “Seamless” Migration

Between Dec 2020 and May 2022, the Etsy Payments Platform, Database Reliability Engineering and Data Access Platform teams moved...

Keith Wells

Feb 22, 2023

Scaling Etsy Payments with Vitess: Part 1 – The Data Model

At the end of 2020, Etsy’s Payments databases were in urgent need of scaling. Specifically, two of our databases were no longer...

River Rainne

Feb 22, 2023

Adding Zonal Resiliency to Etsy’s Kafka Cluster: Part 2

The first time I performed a live upgrade of Etsy's Kafka brokers, it felt exciting. There was a bit of an illicit thrill in taking...

Kamya Shethia

Feb 9, 2023

Adding Zonal Resiliency to Etsy’s Kafka Cluster: Part 1

In 2018, with its decision to choose Google Cloud Platform as its provider, Etsy began a long project of migration to the cloud....

Andrey Polyakov

Jan 31, 2023

Improving the Deployment Experience of a Ten-Year Old Application

In 2018, Etsy migrated its service infrastructure from self-managed data centers to cloud provisioning. (We blogged about it at...

Rachel King

Jun 15, 2021

How Etsy Prepared for Historic Volumes of Holiday Traffic in 2020

The Challenge For Etsy, 2020 was a year of unprecedented and volatile growth. (Simply on a human level it was also a profoundly...

Mike Adler

Feb 25, 2021

Cloud Jewels: Estimating kWh in the Cloud

Etsy has been increasingly enjoying the perks of public cloud infrastructure for a few years, but has been missing a crucial feature:...

Emily Sommer

Apr 23, 2020

G-Scout Enterprise and Cloud Security at Etsy

As companies are moving to the cloud, they are finding a need for security tooling to audit and analyze their cloud environments....

Angelo Mellos

Nov 18, 2019

Apotheosis: A GCP Privilege Escalation Tool

The Principle of Least Privilege One of the most fundamental principles of information security is the principle of least privilege....

Angelo Mellos

Sep 25, 2019

Capacity planning for Etsy's web and API clusters

Capacity planning for the web and API clusters powering etsy.com has historically been a once per year event for us.The purpose...

Daniel Schauenberg

Oct 23, 2018

Deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine

Late last year, Etsy announced that we’ll be migrating our services out of self-managed data centers and into the cloud. We...

Toria Gibbs

Jun 5, 2018