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Changelog Master FeedBringing Vitess to Postgres (Changelog Interviews #651)Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale.
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Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Depot – 10x faster builds? Yes please. Build faster. Waste less time. Accelerate Docker image builds, and GitHub Actions workflows. Easily integrate with yo...2025-07-241h 15Changelog InterviewsBringing Vitess to PostgresSugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale.
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Postgres FMMultigresNikolay and Michael are joined by Sugu Sougoumarane to discuss Multigres — a project he's joined Supabase to lead, building an adaptation of Vitess for Postgres! Here are some links to things they mentioned:Sugu Sougoumarane https://postgres.fm/people/sugu-sougoumaraneSupabase https://supabase.comAnnouncing Multigres https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgresVitess https://github.com/vitessio/vitessSPQR https://github.com/pg-sharding/spqrCitus https://github.com/citusdata/citusPgDog https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdogMyths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL (talk by Alexander Kukushkin) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFn9qRGzTMcConsensus algorithms at scale (8 part series by Sugu) https://pla...2025-07-111h 19
Database SchoolVitess for Postgres, with the co-founder of PlanetScaleSugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess and co-founder of PlanetScale, joins me to talk about his time scaling YouTube’s database infrastructure, building Vitess, and his latest project bringing sharding to Postgres with Multigres.This was a fun conversation with technical deep-dives, lessons from building distributed systems, and why he’s joining Supabase to tackle this next big challenge.Sugu’s Vitess videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOjF7qhmyY&list=PLA9CMdLbfL5zHg3oapO0HvtPfVx6_iJy6The big announcement:https...2025-07-011h 07
Changelog Master FeedStop uploading your data to Google (Changelog News #149)Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres.
View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – Th...2025-06-1608 minChangelog NewsStop uploading your data to GoogleLukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres.
View the newsletterJoin the discussionChangelog++ members save 1 minute on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:Fly.io – Th...2025-06-1608 minThe Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceStop uploading your data to Google (News)Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to lead their Multigres effort to bring Vitess to Postgres.
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Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersSE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with VitessSugu Sougoumarane discusses how to face the challenges of horizontally scaling MySQL databases through the Vitess distribution engine and Planetscale, a service built on top of Vitess. The journey began with the growing pains of scale at YouTube around the time of Google’s acquisition of the video service. This episode explores ideas about topology management, sharding, Paxos, connection pooling, and how Vitess handles large transactions while abstracting complexity from the application layer.2023-04-1948 minSoftware Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersSE Radio 560: Sugu Sougoumarane on Distributed SQL with VitessSugu Sougoumarane discusses how to face the challenges of horizontally scaling MySQL databases through the Vitess distribution engine and Planetscale, a service built on top of Vitess. The journey began with the growing pains of scale at YouTube around the time of Google’s acquisition of the video service. This episode explores ideas about topology management, sharding, Paxos, connection pooling, and how Vitess handles large transactions while abstracting complexity from the application layer.2023-04-1948 min
Data Archives - Software Engineering DailyScaling PlanetScale with Sugu Sougoumarane
Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hosted offering.
PlanetScale is a database company built around the Kubernetes-based Vitess technology. Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO of PlanetScale, and formerly worked at YouTube, where he built large-scale SQL databases. In today’s show, he talks about building out the core PlanetScale technology, tuning PlanetScale’s consensus model, and the...2022-01-3148 min
Cloud Engineering Archives - Software Engineering DailyScaling PlanetScale with Sugu Sougoumarane
Database product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hosted offering.
PlanetScale is a database company built around the Kubernetes-based Vitess technology. Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO of PlanetScale, and formerly worked at YouTube, where he built large-scale SQL databases. In today’s show, he talks about building out the core PlanetScale technology, tuning PlanetScale’s consensus model, and the...2022-01-3148 min
Software Engineering DailyScaling PlanetScale with Sugu SougoumaraneDatabase product companies typically have a few phases. First, the company will develop a technology with some kind of innovation such as speed, scalability, or durability. The company will offer support contracts around that technology for a period of time, before eventually building a managed, hosted offering.PlanetScale is a database company built around the Kubernetes-based Vitess technology. Sugu Sougoumarane is the CTO of PlanetScale, and formerly worked at YouTube, where he built large-scale SQL databases. In today’s show, he talks about building out the core PlanetScale technology, tuning PlanetScale’s consensus model, and the development of t...2022-01-3152 min
The Swyx MixtapeGetting rejected, then hired, by Elon Musk + The Future of Serverless Databases [Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO Planetscale]Listen to the Sourcegraph podcast: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/https://twitter.com/ssougouhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sugu-sougoumarane-b9bb25/Consensus Algorithms at ScaleTranscriptBeyang Liu:Yeah, tell us that story. What happened between you and Elon Musk?Sugu Sougoumarane:So, this was 2000. Elon had just founded X.com. He had sold off Zip2, which was his previous company, and he was considered one of those up and coming entrepreneurs. He wasn’t as popular as he is today. But when I re...2022-01-1919 min
The Sourcegraph PodcastCreating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScaleWhy is using PlanetScale a mind-altering experience? In this episode, Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale, shares how one email got him a second job interview with Elon Musk, tells the story of how he became one of the elite engineers at Paypal by solving the company’s most painful process, and explains why database administrators are shifting from managing machines to managing fleets of machines. Along the way, Sougoumarane explains why so many developers have told him they’ve felt like they’ve waited their whole lives for self-serve schema deployment.Show notes & transcript: https://about...2022-01-181h 12
Software at ScaleSoftware at Scale 29 - Sugu Sougoumarane: CTO, PlanetScaleSugu Sougoumarane is the CTO and Co-Founder of PlanetScale, a database as a service platform company. Previously, he worked at PayPal and YouTube on databases and other scalability problems, and he’s one of the creators of Vitess, a graduated CNCF database project that served as YouTube’s metadata storage for several years.Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google PodcastsWe discuss his early days at PayPal and YouTube, their initial scalability problems, the technology that helped them scale out their products, the motivation behind Vitess, its evolution into PlanetScale, and some of the innovative ideas coming out of P...2021-08-041h 13
Tech LoungeScaling MySQL with Planet ScaleIn this episode I speak with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane of Planet Scale, a solution for scaling MySQL on Kubernetes. I also cover Mozilla, returning to the office, Canonical, and can open source be bought?https://chrischinchilla.com/podcasts--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/chinchillasqueaks/message This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit chinchillasqueaks.substack.com
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Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleCoreDNS, with John BelamaricIn a world where pods (and IP addresses) come and go, DNS is a critical component. John Belamaric is a Senior SWE at Google, a co-chair of Kubernetes SIG Architecture, a Core Maintainer of the CoreDNS project and author of the O’Reilly Media book Learning CoreDNS: Configuring DNS for Cloud Native Environments. He joins Craig and Adam to discuss CoreDNS, the evolution of DNS in Kubernetes, and how name resolution has been made more reliable in recent releases. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@go...2020-06-0249 min
Voices in Data StorageA Conversation with Vitess
Enrico discusses kubernetes, databases & persistent applications within data storage with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane of Vitess.
Voices in Data Storage – Episode 33: A Conversation with Vitess2020-02-0525 min
Kubernetes Podcast from GoogleVitess, with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu SougoumaraneVitess is a cloud native database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL. It was built for YouTube, open sourced, and has recently graduated from the CNCF. Two members of the team who wrote and ran Vitess at YouTube, Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane, are CEO and CTO of PlanetScale; a company they founded to support Vitess commercially. They join Craig and Adam to talk databases. Do you have something cool to share? Some questions? Let us know: web: kubernetespodcast.com mail: kubernetespodcast@google.com twitter: @kubernetespod Chatter of the week Our meetup at KubeCon The...2019-11-2637 min
Contributors: An Open Source Software PodcastVitess: The Distributed Database behind Youtube - Sugu SougoumaraneSugu Sougoumarane, one of the co-creators of Vitess and the CTO of PlanetScale, talks with us this week on Contributors. Vitess is a highly scalable distributed sharding system for MySQL originally created for Youtube, and now in use by many other large companies.
Contributors is produced by Rackner, a consultancy focused on cloud native product development, DevSecOps, and Kubernetes - https://www.rackner.com/2019-09-0319 min
Enterprise TimesLiz Rice and Sugu Sougoumarane talk security and databasesEnterprise Times caught up with Liz Rice, Technology Evangelist, Aqua Security and Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO, PlanetScale Data at the Cloud Native Computing Conference and KubeCon in Copenhagen. We talked about Vitess, the open source database clustering system which is now a CNCF project. At the same time we talked about the challenge of container security, […]2018-05-2921 minEnterprise TimesLiz Rice and Sugu Sougoumarane talk security and databasesEnterprise Times caught up with Liz Rice, Technology Evangelist, Aqua Security and Sugu Sougoumarane, CTO, PlanetScale Data at the Cloud Native Computing Conference and KubeCon in Copenhagen. We talked about Vitess, the open source database clustering system which is now a CNCF project. At the same time we talked about the challenge of container security, […]2018-05-2921 min
Open Source Archives - Software Engineering DailyVitess: Scaling MySQL with Sugu Sougoumarane
YouTube runs a large MySQL database to hold the metadata about its videos. As YouTube scaled, the database was sharded, and applications within YouTube had to write queries that were aware of the sharding layout of that database.
This is problematic because it pushes complexity to the application developer. An application developer shouldn’t have to be aware of how a database is laid out among different nodes. The developer should be able to issue a query and have the cluster simply return the data.
Vitess is an open source system for scaling la...2018-05-1553 min