Transactional microservices with Vitess – coordination without state
As services move to the cloud many organizations are looking to microservices to streamline development, improve reliability, and accelerate feature delivery. Developing and deploying microservices can have a hidden complexity – data. If you are migrating…
DevClass: "What’s the point: Vitess, Cloudflare Workers Unbound, Kuma, New Relic, GitHub, and Oso"
Database clustering system and CNCF graduated project Vitess has recently become available in version 7.0, improving SQL support and stability amongst other things. The tool, which originated at YouTube, now sports VExec and Workflow commands to…
Guest post originally published on the Vitess blog by Deepthi Sigireddi, Vitess maintainer On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support…
PlanetScale migrates open source Vitess test suite from Python to Go
Guest blog post originally published on PlanetScale’s blog by Deepthi Sigireddi Over the last three quarters, the team at PlanetScale has focused on the dual goals of making open source Vitess easy to use and easy…
Version 6 of database clustering system Vitess is out, providing users of the CNCF graduated project with improved SQL support and VReplication-based workflows, amongst other things – if they’re willing to work for it.
Originally published on vitess.io by Morgan Tocker I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule. While only 12 weeks have elapsed since the…
How to migrate a MySQL database to Vitess
Though starting off new projects on Vitess is generally a friction-free process, in a lot of cases, the need for horizontal sharding doesn’t become apparent until rapid growth has already pushed the boundaries of a single…
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…
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…
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,…