SE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with Vitess

Sugu Sougoumarane discusses how to face the
challenges of horizontally scaling MySQL databases through the
Vitess distribution engine and Planetscale, a service built on
top of Vitess. The journey began with the growing pains of scale
at YouTube around the time of Google’s acquisition of the video
service. This episode explores ideas about topology management,
sharding, Paxos, connection pooling, and how Vitess handles large
transactions while abstracting complexity from the application
layer.