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PlanetScale’s founders invented the technology named Vitess that scaled YouTube. Now they’re selling it to any enterprise that wants their data both secure and consistently accessible. And thanks to its ability to re-shard databases while they’re operating, it can unravel businesses’ troubles with GDPR, which demands they store some data in the same locality as the user to whom it belongs.

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They scaled YouTube now theyll shard everyone with PlanetScale

When the former CTOs of YouTube, Facebook and Dropbox seed fund a database startup, you know there’s something special going on under the hood. Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane saved YouTube from a scalability nightmare by inventing and open-sourcing Vitess, a brilliant relational data storage system. But in the decade since working there, the pair have been inundated with requests from tech…

Microsoft updates its planet-scale Cosmos DB database service

Cosmos DB is undoubtedly one of the crucial attention-grabbing merchandise in Microsoft’s Azure portfolio. It’s a completely managed, globally distributed multi-model database that gives throughput ensures, a variety of completely different consistency fashions and excessive learn and write availability ensures. Now that’s a mouthful, however principally, it signifies that builders can construct…