Jaz Volpert, Bluesky PBC
In November of 2024, Bluesky saw a sudden surge in activity adding one million new users per day several days in a row, with daily active users increasing by 1,200% in a week. Through this exponential growth, Bluesky's backend team of ~6 engineers kept the site online and continued to onboard new users despite all of our core infrastructure running on our own physical infrastructure. In this talk, I'll walk you through the 11 days of hell (16+ hours a day) in which we rapidly matured our data architecture to support over 1M hourly active users producing 1,600+ events/sec.
Jaz is the Backend Go developer at Bluesky responsible for scalable data systems and physical infrastructure. From a global index of billions of records, to graph databases, to video platforms, Jaz has built a wide variety of large-scale systems used by tens of millions of users around the world running on cutting-edge hardware that pushes the Go runtime to its limits.
author = {Jaz Volpert},
title = {Maturing Your Data Architecture in a Week: How Bluesky Survived},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}