Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview)
The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
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Transforming Database Solutions with Vitesse
This chapter chronicles the evolution of PlanetScale and the pivotal role played by Sam Lambert in its growth, from advisor to CEO. It focuses on the development of Vitesse, a sophisticated solution that emerged to tackle YouTube's database scalability challenges, ultimately leading to a successful open-source platform. The discussion also covers the complexities of implementing sharding in Postgres, the concept of keyspace IDs, and the innovations in query management that advanced the database ecosystem.
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