How Slack leverages Vitess to keep up with its ever-growing storage needs
If you live on Slack, multiply your usage by millions of active users worldwide and you’ll quickly understand why the company ran into data storage challenges. In the fall of 2016, Slack was dealing with hundreds of thousands…
OpenSource.com: "Helm 3.0, Vitess and Jaeger graduate, and other news from KubeCon 2019"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is hosting its core conference for the fifth year running. Its official title is KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, but it’s most importantly the home for Kubernetes. Adopters, contributors, and Kubernetes-curious attendees add up…
SearchDataManagement "With Vitess 4.0, database vendor matures cloud-native platform"
As a software engineer at YouTube in 2010, Sugu Sougoumarane realized that scaling the MySQL database for the cloud was a tough challenge. His realization helped lead to the creation of the open source Vitess project, which hit…
SDxCentral: "Vitess earns venerable CNCF’s graduate distinction"
Queue Third Eye Blind’s, “Graduate” because the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced its eighth distinguished graduate: Vitess.
SiliconANGLE: "Vitess, the database clustering system powering YouTube, graduates CNCF incubation"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation today announced that Vitess, a database clustering system it took under its wing two years ago, has graduated incubation, becoming the eighth open-source project to achieve the milestone to date.
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Vitess Graduation
Cloud native database system reaches version 4.0 with focus on usability and performance SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – November 5, 2019 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced that…
How JD.com uses Vitess to manage scaling databases for hyperscale
China’s largest retailer, JD.com defines hyperscale: The e-commerce business serves more than 300 million active customers. And in the past few years, as the company’s data ballooned, its MySQL databases became larger, resulting in declining performance and higher…
Square: How Vitess enables ‘near unlimited scale’ for Cash App
Four years ago, Square branched out into peer-to-peer transactions via its Cash App. After doing so, users started increasing by the minute and they needed to come up with a long term solution for scalability. Vitess was the…
SDxCentral: "Open source storage system Vitess joins CNCF"
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) accepted its second cloud-based storage project, Vitess, just a week after voting in its first storage project Rook. The second storage project – and CNCF’s 16th hosted project – is a database…
The New Stack: "CNCF’s Vitess scales MySQL with the help of Kubernetes"
A technology developed by YouTube to shard large MySQL databases across multiple servers, Vitess, has become the 16th hosted project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. .