---
title: "Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/evolving-the-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics-aja9xrxiv
source_url: https://blog.heroku.com/evolving-backend-storage-for-platform-metrics
type: article
source: "Heroku"
published: 2024-05-09T17:07:51.538Z
updated: 2024-05-09T17:07:50.626Z
tags: ["heroku", "apache-kafka", "apache-cassandra"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Evolving the Backend Storage for Platform Metrics

**[Heroku](https://daily.dev/sources/heroku)** · 6 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Heroku migrated to a new and improved storage backend for platform metrics to ensure security, reliability, and performance. The migration involved steps such as setting up parallel stream-processing jobs, running experiments, and gradually transitioning queries to the new storage backend. The migration to AWS's DynamoDB was successful and resulted in a more scalable and efficient system.

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Tags: [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku), [#apache-kafka](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-kafka), [#apache-cassandra](https://daily.dev/tags/apache-cassandra)

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