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Oct 21, 2021 · Databases

How We Scaled an E‑commerce Order System with Sharding, Consistent Hashing, and Zero‑Downtime Migration

This article details how a rapidly growing e‑commerce platform migrated from a single MySQL instance to a 16‑shard architecture using Sharding‑Jdbc, introduced consistent‑hashing to mitigate data skew, leveraged ES+HBase for multi‑dimensional queries, and implemented zero‑downtime migration strategies such as dual‑write and Canal replication.