Vitess is an open source project that packages many of the ad-hoc processes and conventions that grew out of managing and scaling MySQL at YouTube.

It is now at the core of our MySQL serving infrastructure, and is primarily written in Go. In this session, we’ll cover our vision of where the project is headed as well as what we’ve achieved so far. We’ll go over some of the challenges and wins due to using Go as the language of choice. We’ll also share tips on how to write scalable servers using Go.