Case Study: HubSpot achieves faster database scaling and automation with CNCF Vitess

To support ‘immense scaling,’ HubSpot turns to Vitess for sharding and automation

HubSpot, a company offering inbound marketing, sales, and customer success software, faced immense scaling challenges as its customer base grew. They needed to shard their large MySQL databases to handle the increased data load, but found the manual process to be extremely difficult and unsustainable for their growth trajectory. They turned to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Vitess for a solution.

By implementing the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Vitess, HubSpot automated database sharding and operations. This allowed developers to provision databases in minutes instead of days and reduced cluster upgrade times from days to just two hours. The solution nearly doubled their production load and number of databases while keeping the infrastructure team size static, and it drastically reduced downtime from impairments to mere seconds.

HubSpot

Leo Lin

Technical Lead of the Vitess Infrastructure Team