“Vitesse is a, it's essentially a wrapper on top of MySQL that lets you shard, um, more dynamically.”

The Pragmatic Engineer · Scaling Slack and GitHub with Maude Lemaire

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described Vitesse, a wrapper on top of MySQL that enables dynamic sharding and re-sharding of data

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