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Vitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScale

Database School

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Building a Better Database: The Birth of Vitesse

This chapter explores the early challenges faced by YouTube as it grappled with rapid growth and database limitations. It details the pivotal decision to create Vitesse, a proxy layer for MySQL, aimed at improving stability and performance through intelligent connection pooling. The discussion highlights the balance between maintaining database integrity and accommodating application developers' needs, reflecting on the lessons learned from managing large datasets.

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