They scaled YouTube. Now they’ll shard everyone with PlanetScale

10:50am PST - December 13th, 2018    google drive - TechCrunch

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 Vites…