DevPlanetScaleover 3 years ago
What is Vitess: resiliency, scalability, and performance
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Vitess is an open-source database clustering system for MySQL. Originally built by YouTube in 2010, it runs multiple MySQL instances with a VTGate proxy to route queries. PlanetScale uses Vitess to power its platform. The project scales companies like GitHub and Slack with contributions from PlanetScale, Google, and Stripe.
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