Exploring High Availability in Kubernetes with Vitess

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Vitess presents a MySQL-compatible sharding layer that runs in Kubernetes with a stateless vtgate-as-proxy front end and stateful vttablet connection pooling and hot‑row protection, enabling horizontal scaling and geo‑distributed replicas across cells. Demo shows four shards with masters and replicas in US‑West, US‑East and Asia, uses Orchestrator for topology, performs a planned reparent and kills pods and an entire cluster; cluster reorganizes and continues serving writes after failover (demo has brief flakiness).

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1. 0:00Start
2. 9:43Demo
3. 18:20Orchestrator
4. 29:05Add or Remove Shards

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