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On joining PlanetScale and the vision of open source database infrastructure

This is a personal account on why I joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB, and what I perceive Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem. Background I am a software engineer, drawn into the database world. I’ve been working with MySQL for two decades now, and am authoring or have authored various open source tools in the MySQL ecosystem: orchestrator for high availability, gh-ost for online schema migrations, freno for throttling and others. In the past decade I’ve wo

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