Vitess at FOSDEM 2023

Vitess at FOSDEM 2023

Some of the Vitess maintainers traveled to Brussels, Belgium to attend and speak at pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days and at FOSDEM.

pre-FOSDEM MySQL Days #

When: Feb 2-3
Who: Deepthi Sigireddi, Harshit Gangal, Shlomi Noach
What: VTOrc - How Vitess achieves consensus using MySQL Replication by Deepthi

Highlights #

  • There were a lot of questions about how Vitess handles various failure scenarios.
  • We had good conversations with both the MySQL team and MySQL/Vitess community users. There were attendees from booking.com, Slack and HubSpot.
  • The event is very interactive. People are very engaged, and it is a great speaking / participation experience.
  • People challenge us on how we are doing things. This is a good thing, it forces us to articulate why we do things the way we do not just for others but for ourselves.

Consensus in Vitess / VTOrc
Credit: Shlomi Noach

Learnings #

  • While the Vitess maintainer team keeps track of new developments in MySQL, listening to the Oracle team gives us insight into their priorities.
  • This is a unique opportunity to have conversations about MySQL with the Oracle team and power users.
  • Vitess is the only generic sharding solution for MySQL. Because of this, the audience was more interested in sharding and how queries work in sharded mode than anything else.

FOSDEM (MariaDB/MySQL Dev Room) #

When: Feb 4-5
Who: Deepthi Sigireddi, Harshit Gangal, Rohit Nayak, Shlomi Noach
What: Life of a Query in Vitess by Harshit

Highlights #

  • Lot of great talks about the ecosystem and MySQL

Life of a Query in Vitess
Credit: Deepthi Sigireddi

Maintainers at FOSDEM
Credit: Shlomi Noach

Learnings #

  • It is important for us to have a presence at this event. There were ~150 people in the audience and they are almost all running MariaDB/MySQL in production.

What’s next #