Introduction to Vitess and Real World Usage - Arthur Schreiber, Github & Florent Poinsard

Introduction to Vitess and Real World Usage - Arthur Schreiber, Github & Florent Poinsard, PlanetScale

As application traffic grows, the increased load will ultimately reach the backend database. This can lead to increased latency and slower response times if the database management system is not able to scale as load increases. System designers and architects have two options for scaling: vertical and horizontal. While horizontal scaling is usually more cost-effective and flexible, not all database management systems allow you to scale this way. Vitess is a large open-source distributed database management system. It was designed to scale horizontally and support an increasing load. This session will introduce what is Vitess and give a real world usage example of Vitess.