Stateful, scalable storage on Kubernetes is an unsolved problem. Creating it as a service is even more difficult. The cloud-native ecosystem offers many tools such as the operator-sdk, Prometheus, Grafana, etcd, Vitess, and much more, but integrating them isn't necessarily intuitive.
Two of PlanetScale's employees that have engineered and managed the project describe the journey of leveraging all of these open source technologies to build out a database as a service on Kubernetes.
Abhi is a confused economist who enjoys writing backend code for various parts of PlanetScale's Vitess management software. In his spare time he is a DJ, podcast host, and competitive Super Smash Bros. player.
