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I heard that YouTube has migrated to Spanner already. YT was the last major user of MySQL at Google, the Googlers probably consider that as a snowflake and want
by ericyan 5y ago
I heard that YouTube has migrated to Spanner already. YT was the last major user of MySQL at Google, the Googlers probably consider that as a snowflake and wanted to move away from it. Nothing wrong with Vitess itself.
- joatmon-snoo 5y agoAFAIK it's been done for a while (ex-Googler but non-YT, left recently). Vitess was most definitely a special snowflake: most Google production servers don't even have disk anymore[0]. (There are a whole host of other reasons for doing Vitess->Spanner, all of which fall under "special snowflake infrastructure".) [0] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//static/pdf/case-studies-infrastructure-change-management.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st... (see ch2, diskless)