We recently conducted a survey of how Vitess is being used by the community. This blog post summarizes what we learned. "Vitess solves an existential threat for services which outgrow a single MySQL database." "Horizontal sharding helps us scale quickly, and the new generation execution plan, Gen4, enables us to support more SQL queries." "Vitess has allowed us to scale and step away from our dev-ops role, allowing us to focus on higher level and higher impact tooling and automation.