--- title: Counting Billions of Content Usage at Canva | daily.dev description: Canva faced significant challenges in accurately counting content usage for their Creators Program due to the rapidly growing data volume which was originally... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/counting-billions-of-content-usage-at-canva-nynnyfwdk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Counting Billions of Content Usage at Canva | daily.dev og:description: Canva faced significant challenges in accurately counting content usage for their Creators Program due to the rapidly growing data volume which was originally... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/counting-billions-of-content-usage-at-canva-nynnyfwdk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NYnnYFwDK.png og:image:alt: Counting Billions of Content Usage at Canva og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Counting Billions of Content Usage at Canva **[ByteByteGo](https://daily.dev/sources/bytebytego)** · 10 min read · 20 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Canva faced significant challenges in accurately counting content usage for their Creators Program due to the rapidly growing data volume which was originally handled by a MySQL-based system. The MySQL design, while simple, created scalability issues. Canva explored transitioning to DynamoDB but found it wouldn't solve their processing problems. Ultimately, they moved to an OLAP-based solution with Snowflake, significantly improving latency and handling billions of records efficiently. The new architecture provided numerous benefits including reduced latency, simplified incident handling, and decreased data storage needs, though it also introduced some new complexities in data transformation and infrastructure management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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