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Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance

Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss. When one hears “cloud-native, highly-available, distributed database running on Kubernetes,” it does sound too good to be true, so we understand the initial apprehension. Even though multiple reputable companies such as Slack, Square, GitHub, and JD run their production databases on Vitess, we still get questions about whether or not Vitess will lose data. We’re here to debun

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