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The relational model in the modern development age

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 10:30· D.mysql· [databases, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Shlomi Noach

bluesky:shlomi-noach.bsky.social

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.mysql/relational_model_dev.mp4

slides:none on file

summary

Covers how relational schema management creates operational friction for developers and presents a modern paradigm that restores developer ownership, using features added to Vitess (the CNCF sharding/proxy system) as the example. Explains problems like complex schema deployments, lack of conflict resolution, and irreversibility, and describes Vitess capabilities for hiding operational complexity, scheduled schema migrations, revertible (undeploy) changes, and aligning schema with code via declarative schemas, idempotent deployments, and version control.

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