Scaling Databases with Vitess

Explore the cloud-native storage solution Vitess in this 41-minute conference talk presented by Harshit Gangal and Manan Gupta from Planetscale. Discover the high-level architecture and feature set of Vitess, which provides horizontal scaling for MySQL databases. Learn about its compatibility with the popular web framework Rails and see a demonstration of how to set up Vitess with Rails using the Kubernetes operator. Gain insights into scaling out existing databases running on AWS RDS/Aurora using Vitess, addressing the need to scale already running applications. Understand the ease of database management offered by this CNCF-hosted project and its potential impact on cloud-native database solutions.