Mailbox has grown unbelievably quickly. During that growth, one performance issue that impacted us was MongoDBâs database-level write lock. The amount of time Mailboxâs backends were waiting for the write lock was resulting in user-perceived latency. While MongoDB allows you to add shards to a MongoDB cluster easily, we wanted to spare ourselves potential long-term pain by moving one of the most f
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