Date: March 20, 2025
Time: 10:00am PT
In early 2023, Plaid incurred 104 minutes of planned service downtime and consumed 26 engineering weeks of effort upgrading its services from Aurora 5.6 to Aurora 5.7. More downtime and effort was imminent, as Aurora 5.7 would be end-of-life by the close of 2024, requiring another round of upgrades.
By contrast, in 2025, Plaid upgraded all of its TiDB clusters from v7.5.3 to v7.5.5, incurring no downtime and expending just 1 engineering week of effort, eliminating 100% of the downtime and 96% of the effort.
Join Brian Xie, Software Engineer at Plaid, as he recounts the company’s journey from Amazon Aurora to TiDB. He’ll share in-depth insights from the trenches that showcase Plaid’s process and how a team of six engineers migrated almost 100 services in less than two years.
Key topics include:
- The methodology behind Plaid’s TiDB migration
- Efficiency optimizations the company made to the process
- Successful strategies for accelerating TiDB adoption and key lessons learned
- The maintenance burden reduction from zero-downtime upgrades
This LIVE webinar will equip your team with the tools and tactics to confidently migrate your database to TiDB and take advantage of the reduced database maintenance burden. You don’t want to miss it!
Brian Xie
Software Engineer at Plaid
Brian Xie is a Software Engineer on the Storage team at Plaid. He started his journey at the company designing and building out critical, high-throughput services powering core data models. In the last two years, he has revamped the driver layer for Plaid’s 500TB+ Mongo cluster and built the validation framework for migrating services from Amazon Aurora to TiDB. Brian is now leading the TiDB migration for the company’s most critical service (scheduled to cutover on 2/27!)