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Introduction to Vitess

Talk at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

What Vitess is, how its architecture fits together, and a demo of how it serves queries as a distributed database.

Presented at the first KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India in Delhi, with Harshit Gangal. The full title is Introduction to Vitess: Scalable Database for Modern Applications.

This is the Vitess introductory session. Harshit and I cover what Vitess is, the vocabulary you need to follow its architecture, and the features it offers. Then we demo how Vitess serves query traffic as a distributed database. We close with what landed in recent releases and what was coming in the next one.