KubeCon NA Talk: Under the Hood of Vitess

Come meet our team at the PlanetScale booth at KubeCon NA on November 10th, 2025 in Atlanta, GA. You can find us at booth 643. We'll be doing product demos, giving out swag, and chatting about databases. Looking forward to meeting you!

Under the Hood of Vitess: Database Engineered for Scale and Resilience

• Speakers: Harshit Gangal & Andres Taylor, Vitess Maintainers @ PlanetScale
• Date: Wednesday November 12, 2025 2:15pm - 2:45pm EST
• Location: Building C | Level 3 | Georgia Ballroom 3

Vitess powers some of the world’s largest production MySQL databases. In this session, we’ll take you under the hood of Vitess to explore how it’s engineered to deliver scalability, performance, and resilience in distributed environments.

We’ll walk through key internal components and show how they work together to manage sharded, multi-tenant, and geo-distributed workloads.

This talk is designed for contributors, operators, and advanced users who want to understand Vitess beyond the basics. We’ll share real-world lessons from operating Vitess at scale, recent performance improvements, and upcoming roadmap features. Whether you’re looking to contribute to the project or deepen your understanding of its internals, this session will equip you with the architectural insights needed to reason about Vitess in production.