Vitess is a popular CNCF project that is used to scale some of
the largest MySQL installations in the world — by companies like
Slack, Square, Shopify, and GitHub. It provides sharding,
connection pooling, and many other features that make it easy to
scale MySQL horizontally. Vitess and MySQL are ideally suited for
use as an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) system — where the
end-user interacts directly with the system and fast response
times are essential as they get product and service information,
generating critical business records such as orders, user
profiles, and more.