“Scaling = replacing all components of a car while driving it at 100mph” – Mike Krieger, Instagram Co-founder @ Airbnb OpenAir 2015 Airbnb peak traffic grows at a rate of 3.5x per year, with a seasonal summer peak.Heading into the 2015 summer travel season, the infrastructure team at Airbnb was hard at work scaling our databases to handle the expected record summer traffic. One particularly impact