Project Lightning Talk: Vitess in Production: Powering Applications at Massive Sca...
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Vitess runs production MySQL at very large scale and claims concrete deployments: 1,000 shards, 425 TB, 1.7M QPS (one company), 400 shards, 4M QPS (Square Cash App), and Cursor: 256 shards, 300 TB, P99 <10 ms, avg <2 ms after migrating off Aurora Limitless. It implements horizontal sharding behind a single MySQL API, provides online schema changes, a Kubernetes operator, automatic failover and cluster management, and live re-sharding while importing existing shard layouts.
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