SAM LAMBERT

We took YouTube's database technology and made it accessible to every developer, not just Google engineers.

Database branching is Git for your schema. Deploy database changes the same way you deploy code.

Removing the free tier was painful. The community was angry. But building a sustainable business matters more than free users.

Vitess powers YouTube. That's the best proof of concept you could ever ask for.

The enterprise pivot is working. Companies running MySQL at massive scale need Vitess expertise. We have it.

MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Making it infinitely scalable is a massive market.