Vitess is a bit less of an application abstraction layer in the sense of Edgestore, Tao, and others, and more of an operational abstraction that hides physical

Vitess is a bit less of an application abstraction layer in the sense of Edgestore, Tao, and others, and more of an operational abstraction that hides physical sharding and taking the pain out of repartitioning to accommodate new capacity. I've had some opportunity to work with the Vitess (now PlanetScale) folks on some other databases-related work and it's a great community and product so I would definitely encourage people to check it out.