Vitess: Intro and New Features
summary
Vitess is a MySQL/MariaDB clustering layer that runs in Kubernetes, serves millions of QPS in production at Slack, Square, JD.com and PlanetScale, and presents as a single logical database across thousands of servers. Recent work targets the 12.0 release, vtadmin as a single control plane for multiple isolated clusters with gRPC/HTTP APIs and a React UI, resharding with live vdiff validation (Slack sees ~7‑hour vdifs at scale, plan to move vdiff to tablets), operator automation, and online DDL plus improved performance and benchmarks.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:43Operators
- 10:33Workflow
- 16:10Andrew Mason
- 19:20Test deployments
- 26:45VDIF
- 27:19V Diff
- 30:13Output
- 34:52Questions
