Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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A simple database protection layer at YouTube was just a query limit. Sugu Sougoumarane, co-creator of Vitess, explains how they prevented numerous outages with just a query limit of 10,000 records during his time as a software engineer at YouTube.

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▶️ YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=28q9mFh87KY
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