Cloudflare

Cloudflare is no longer "just" a CDN serving 55M HTTP requests/sec, they are now offering a wide range of cloud services on the edge. These services run on a data layer with 15 Postgres clusters running hundreds of databases. Vignesh Ravichandran, engineering manager of Cloudflare's database team, joined us to discuss the challenges of running this large scale multi-tenant environment - dealing with network partitions, noisy neighbors, floods of connections and even global warming. We talk about the importance of having a good toolset, of practicing incidents and of internally advocating database best practices to a large engineering organization. The blog: https://blog.cloudflare.com/performance-isolation-in-a-multi-tenant-database-environment/ The Scale presentation: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/challenges-building-house-rds 00:00 intros 00:47 What’s Cloudflare? 03:45 Databases at Cloudflare 04:15 Cloudflare’s multi-tenant DB architecture 08:27 Mapping apps, DBs and clusters 14:20 Problems of Scale 20:00 Tools of the trade 24:45 Performance isolation of tenants 31:45 Performance isolation in the future 34:20 Few last tips