Running Sharded MySQL on Kubernetes (opens in new tab)

The topic I’m presenting addresses a growing and unfulfilled need: the ability to run stateful workloads in Kubernetes. Running stateless applications is now considered a solved problem. However, it’s currently not practical to put databases like MySQL in containers, give them to Kubernetes, and expect it to manage their life cycles. Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO of Planetscale and creator of Vitess. Vitess addresses this need by providing all the necessary orchestration and safety, and it has multi...