How Block Migrated to a Scalable Data Architecture with TiDB

Square Message unifies buyer-seller communication across Block’s ecosystem. But as the messaging hub’s data volume grew, the original data stack couldn’t scale, query latency increased, and schema migrations were shaky. As a result, Block needed to find a modern, more scalable alternative to MySQL.

In this video, Christina Lee, Senior Product Designer at Block, and Henry Qin, Software Engineer at Block, explain why the company selected TiDB—the world’s most advanced, open-source, distributed SQL database with built-in HTAP capabilities—to handle its growing MySQL data workloads.

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