May 29, 2019
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019
Sugu Sougoumarane, Dan Kozlowski
Vitess has continued to evolve into a massively scalable sharded solution for the cloud. It's is now used for storing core business data for companies like Slack, Square, JD.com, and many others.
This session will cover the high-level features of Vitess with a focus on what makes it cloud-native.
We'll conclude with a demo of the powerful materialized views feature that most sharded systems have yet to solve.
About the Authors

Sugu Sougoumarane
Sugu is the co-creator of Vitess, and has been working on it since 2010. Prior to Vitess, Sugu worked on scalability at YouTube and was also part of PayPal in the early days. His recent interest is in distributed systems and consensus algorithms. He occasionally shares his thoughts on his blog ssougou.blogspot.com.