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By Alkin Tezuysal | October 27, 2020

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 8 for MySQL. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | October 4, 2020

The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system the better it scales →

By Shlomi Noach | October 2, 2020

We look at some basics and follow up to present scenarios that require higher level intervention to ensure availability and to avoid split brains from taking place. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | September 26, 2020

Consensus Use Cases →

By Shlomi Noach | September 19, 2020

How the new integration adds new failure detection and recovery scenarios making orchestrator’s operation goal-oriented. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | September 9, 2020

The Rules of Consensus →

By Shlomi Noach | September 1, 2020

Why I joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB and what I perceive Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | August 28, 2020

This is a multi-part blog series and will be updated with links to the corresponding posts. →

By Jiten Vaidya | August 14, 2020

Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database →

By Deepthi Sigireddi | July 28, 2020

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support We continued to progress towards (almost) full MySQL compatibility. →

By Abhi Vaidyanatha | June 10, 2020

Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss. →

By Morgan Tocker | April 29, 2020

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6 the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule. →

By Jiten Vaidya | April 29, 2020

Build systems that do not lose data. Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage with the redo log and binary logs safely written to disk and (2) making use of semi-synchronous replication. →

By Abhi Vaidyanatha | April 23, 2020

This video playlist featuring Vitess co-creator Sugu Sougoumarane is an excellent resource to learn more about the features and capabilities of open source Vitess. →

By Deepthi Sigireddi | March 20, 2020

It’s easier than ever to contribute to Vitess. The test suite migration from Python to golang makes Vitess more developer friendly. →