[shlomi-noach]

PlanetScale engineer and Vitess contributor here. As a brief history, Vitess was originally developed as an open source project in YouTube, and then handed over to CNCF.

PlanetScale was created by authors of Vitess, and employs a team of Vitess developers and contributors. There are Vitess contributors outside PlanetScale, from companies such as Slack, Square, Nozzle, Pinterest and others (apologies to people/companies not mentioned).

Just to explain how we work, if you ever come by to KubeCon, you're likely to find our Vitess booth. It is normally staffed by PlanetScale engineers. But in that booth we wear the Vitess hat, not the PlanetScale hat. We want to respect Vitess for being its own open source project, which we share with our community friends from different companies.

Then again, as we employ many Vitess contributors, including the Vitess project leader Deepthi Sigireddi, we do pride in driving this OSS project from within PlanetScale. As we wear our PlanetScale hat, we give credit to the Vitess technology our product is based on.