Vitess is a cloud native database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. It was built for YouTube, open sourced, and has recently graduated from the CNCF. Two members of the team who wrote and ran Vitess at YouTube, Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane, are CEO and CTO of PlanetScale; a company they founded to support Vitess commercially. They join Craig and Adam to talk databases.

Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know:

Chatter of the week

News of the week

Links from the interview

Vitess
- About Jiten and Sugu
Graduated from the CNCF
Database shards
Vitess history
- YouTube acquired by Google in 2006
Go; 10 years old
Google storage systems:
- Bigtable
- Colossus
Scaling MySQL in the cloud with Vitess and Kubernetes and Cloud Native MySQL Sharding with Vitess and Kubernetes by Anthony Yeh, Google Cloud
Case studies: Stich Labs, Hubspot, JD.com
Vitess at KubeCon:
- Vitess: Stateless Storage in the Cloud by Sugu Sougoumarane
- Geo-partitioning with Vitess by Deepthi Sigireddi and Jiten Vaidya
- How to Migrate a MySQL Database to Vitess by Sugu Sougoumarane & Morgan Tocker
- Gone in 60 Minutes: Migrating 20 TB from AKS to GKE in an Hour with Vitess by Derek Perkins from Nozzle
Postgres support
PlanetScale
Announcing PlanetScale’s CNDb
The name
- Voltron
- Strong Bad’s advice on naming things
Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane on Twitter

Vitess, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane

Kubernetes Podcast from Google