# The growing pains of database architecture

DevFeed: [The growing pains of database architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-growing-pains-of-database-architecture-9764.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/how-figma-scaled-to-multiple-databases/>)

Author: Tim Liang

Published: 2023-04-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [Scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/scalability.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>), [Amazon RDS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-rds.md>)

Tags: [amazon-rds](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-rds.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cpu.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [scalability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scalability.md>)

## AI overview

Figma's infrastructure team describes how database growth created scalability and reliability risks as traffic increased. The team addressed the limits of a single Amazon RDS database through larger instances, read replicas, additional databases for new use cases, and PgBouncer connection pooling, while laying the groundwork for future growth.

## Source excerpt

How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases.