YouTube engineers are developing a set of software, called Vitess, that will help open-source MySQL databases work more efficiently in very large-scale production environments. To write the code, they are using Google's programming language Go.

YouTube already uses one Vitess component, called Vtocc, to help serve videos to all of the service's 800 million monthly users. Google acquired YouTube in 2006.

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