To write the code, they are using Google’s programming language Go. YouTube already uses one Vitess component, called Vtocc, to help serve videos to all of the service’s 800 million monthly users.

Oracle has recently announced the general availability of MySQL 8.2, which includes support for Read/Write Splitting. This long-awaited feature has been introduced in the latest innovation release and ...

YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code ...