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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: Multicloud MySQL with Jiten Vaidya and Anthony Yeh
Description: For many applications, a transactional MySQL database is the source of truth. To make a MySQL database scale, some developers deploy their database using Vitess, a sharding system built on top of Kubernetes. Jiten Vaidya and Anthony Yeh work at PlanetScale, a company that focuses on building and supporting MySQL databases sharded with Vitess. Their experience comes from working at YouTube, which has a massive, rapidly growing database for storing the information about videos on the site. Sharding is not the only database problem that YouTube faced. Availability was another issue.At YouTube, the database o...