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Shared Nothing Databases at Scale

This talk will discuss how PlanetScale scaled databases in the cloud, focusing on a shared-nothing architecture that is built around expecting failure. Nick will go into how to deliver low-latency high-throughput systems that span multiple nodes, availability zones, and regions, while maintaining sub-millisecond response times. This starts at the storage layer and builds all the way up to micro-optimizing the load balancer, with a lot of learning at every step of the way.

19 minutes
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Nick Van Wiggeren, CTO at PlanetScale

Nick Van Wiggeren is the CTO at PlanetScale, where he takes the details seriously while building the fastest and most reliable cloud database. Previously, he worked all over the GitHub product, and in many other developer-facing products that you know and (hopefully) love.