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The story of Vitess (Interview)

Apr 12, 2022

Deepthi Sigireddi, a maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale, shares her journey with Vitess, an open-source database that started at YouTube to solve outages. She discusses how Vitess handles sharding for scalability and its significance in the cloud-native landscape. Deepthi also touches on the thriving community behind Vitess and its transition to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Plus, explore the upcoming features in Vitess 13, focusing on user interface enhancements and improved query planning.

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Intro

2min

The Origins and Evolution of Vitesse: A Solution to Database Outages

6min

Scaling Databases with Vitess

16min

Transition of WITES to CNCF and the Birth of PlanetScale

3min

Database Odyssey: A Journey Through Time

7min

The Evolution of Database Solutions

19min

Navigating Enterprise Integration Challenges

5min

Navigating Open Source Dynamics

15min

Collaborative Contributions and Complex Enhancements in Vitess

5min

10.

Advancements in Vitess Database

10min

11.

Transitioning to Cloud-Based Managed Services

4min

This week we’re joined by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess Maintainer and engineer at PlanetScale — of course we’re talking about all things Vitess. We talk about its origin inside YouTube, how Vitess handles sharding, Deepthi’s journey to Vitess maintainer, when you should begin using it, and how it fits into cloud native infra.

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Deepthi Sigireddi – GitHub, X
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