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The Rules of Consensus

Shlomi Noach on why he joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB, and what he perceives Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem.

Breaking down consensus algorithms: building a new set of rules and principles using a variety of more flexible algorithms and achieving objectives with Vitess.

PlanetScaleDB is a sharded database built on Vitess. Learn key sharding concepts and apply them using our quickstart demo and sample app for rating puppies written in Rust.

Software engineer Abhi Vaidyanatha walks us through a live deployment of a true multi-cloud Vitess cluster on PlanetScaleDB

You can set up a fully persistent web-app for free in 10 minutes. Don't believe us? To find out how, check out this blog post by PlanetScale engineer William Gordon that highlights the synergy between Vercel and PlanetScaleDB.

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support We continued to progress towards (almost) full MySQL compatibility.

Bring your own Kubernetes! Use the PlanetScaleDB control plane hosted by us to deploy, manage, and monitor single and multi-sharded MySQL databases conveniently in your own Kubernetes clusters using the PlanetScaleDB operator.

What is the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss? Read this post which debunks myths about Vitess and address some lingering questions about how Vitess handles failures.

We open-sourced the Vitess Operator that allows users to easily deploy databases in Kubernetes with many benefits including scale, high availability, and backups.

Build systems that do not lose data. Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage, with the redo log and binary logs safely written to disk and (2) making use of semi-synchronous replication.

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule.

This video playlist featuring Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, is an excellent resource to learn more about the features and capabilities of open source Vitess.

With the recent release of our new multi-cloud offering, the PlanetScale engineering team achieved a feat that has never been done before: enabling a database-as-a-service to replicate across the three major cloud providers. Learn how we did it.

PlanetScaleDB provides out-of-this-world availability and fault tolerance for your databases by supporting regions outside of Earth.

We’ve made it easy to set up a multi-region or multi-cloud database. While our multi-cloud and multi-region databases on PlanetScaleDB are in beta and should not be used for production workloads, you can get started right away by creating an account.

True multi-cloud, multi-region clusters for PlanetScaleDB now available in beta release on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

It's easier than ever to contribute to Vitess. The test suite migration from Python to golang makes Vitess more developer friendly.

PlanetScaleDB is the new name for our cloud native database-as-a-service previously called PlanetScale CNDb

If you are still pulling from registry.planetscale.com, you should update all your systems to instead pull from us.gcr.io/planetscale-vitess by March 26, 2020.

The PlanetScale team talks at preFOSDEM 2020 on "MySQL Server Usability Guidelines" and "Vitess: the sharding solution for MySQL 8.0".

PlanetScale headed to San Diego for KubeCon + Cloud NativeCon and celebrated the general availability of PlanetScale CNDb, the cloud native database powered by Vitess.

PlanetScale is excited to announce the general availability of our database-as-a-service, PlanetScale CNDb

The PlanetScale team went to Amsterdam for Percona Live EU 2019

The PlanetScale team will be at Oracle Open World next week and at Percona Live in Amsterdam at the end of the month. Stop by and say hi!