Online design service https://www.canva.com/ has an obscene amount of media. In 2017, https://thenewstack.io/how-canva-uses-data-to-prioritize-qa-testing/ led more than 25 billion user-uploaded media with another 50 million uploaded daily by 100 million monthly active users.

The media service, for example, manages all things media within Canva.

The media service started as a thin layer around MySQL hosted on Amazon Web Services Relational Database Service (AWS RDS), as did many other Canva services.

The team migrated the existing integration tests for media update requests to test against both migrated media and mediate created directly on DynamoDB.

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