In 2010, infrastructure engineers at YouTube needed to cope with explosive growth and started to work on solutions around scaling MySQL. Vitess was born.
In 2015, Vitess was discovered by companies outside YouTube. Today, companies such as Slack, Square (Cash), JD.com and Pinterest depend on Vitess for scaling and serving their relational data.
Interested in learning more?
Come join the creators, maintainers, users and fans of Vitess as we share our scaling stories and strategies. Find out what is new, hear about best practices from real-life Vitess users, and see live demos from Vitess creators and contributors.
Food, beer, and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. This event is co-hosted by Slack and PlanetScale.
Vitess extends MySQL and helps companies scale. Created by veterans of YouTube, Vitess is now a successful open source database scaling system used at companies like Slack, Square, JD.com and Pinterest, where it provides an easy solution for organizations that want to run reliable, highly-available and massively-scalable databases.
Rafael Chacon is a Staff Software Engineer on the infrastructure team at Slack, where he is working on the MySQL database layer on top of Vitess. Rafael is passionate about scaling and distributed systems. Previously, he was part of the core services team at MyFitnessPal, where he worked on the foundational services that helped scaled the application to more than 100 million users.
