What is Vitess: resiliency, scalability, and performance

This post introduces Vitess as an open-source database clustering system for MySQL, explaining its role in enabling resiliency, scalability, and performance. It details how Vitess uses multiple MySQL instances and a proxy (VTGate) for intelligent query routing and automatic failover. It also describes horizontal sharding for scaling and how VTGate and VTTablet manage connections to optimize performance.