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Announcing Vitess 6

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule. While only 12 weeks have elapsed since the previous release, it feels like a few key investments have started to pay dividends all at once. To provide some personal highlights: Improved SQL Support Vitess now understands much more of MySQL’s syntax. We have taken the approach of studying the queries issued by common applications and frameworks, and baking them right i

ACID Transactions are not just for banks — the Vitess approach

The outdated example of transferring money from account A to account B needs to be updated for today's emerging applications. Vitess provides an answer. Remember the early 2000s world of Office Space? Java was still new, usenet passed for social media, and applications were using proprietary Sun hardware with Oracle databases. Then the tech bubble burst, and in that time of frugality, companies shifted to using commodity hardware with open source databases. In many cases, the database of choice

Node.js 12.16.3 (LTS)

Videos: Intro to Vitess—its powerful capabilities and how to get started

In 2020, we launched our first video series about Vitess to help individuals learn more about its features and capabilities. For those new to Vitess, it is an open source horizontal sharding framework for MySQL, developed at YouTube to help them keep up with their massive scale. It was later donated to the CNCF and now sits among Kubernetes, Prometheus, and others as a graduated project. The videos feature Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and CTO of PlanetScale. At a glance, these short v

Node.js 14.0.0 (Current)

ZEIT is now Vercel

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OpenSSL security releases do not require Node.js security releases

Elastic: Distributed by design

Learn the how and why behind Elastic’s distributed nature and what being distributed means to us as a business practice and mindset.