STORAGE CHALLENGES IN THE EVOLUTION OF DATABASE ARCHITECTURE

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A team of Postman engineers tackled a storage issue with the Sync service, which had been running since 2014 and was facing physical storage limitations on an AWS RDS Aurora cluster. The team initially attempted to prune older records to free up space but found that it didn't work as expected due to certain constraints. They then devised an approach to free up tables without compromising system reliability, resulting in 60TB of space freed.