Translating Vitess: Making Open Source More Accessible

Explore the journey of making Vitess, an open-source project incubated by CNCF, more accessible to a global audience in this conference talk. Learn about the challenges and importance of translating documentation for international adoption, with a focus on the Chinese market. Discover how Vitess, a tool for scaling and sharding MySQL, has been embraced by teams worldwide, including JD.com's record-breaking Vitess on Kubernetes installation. Gain insights into the Vitess team's vision for expanding accessibility in China and their plans for a translation sprint kick-off. Understand the impact of language barriers on open-source technology adoption and the steps being taken to overcome them in this informative 22-minute presentation by Roni He and Toliver Jue from PlanetScale.