Shlomi Noach is a database engineer and the author of several of the most widely used open source tools for operating MySQL at scale. He created orchestrator, a replication topology manager and high-availability tool, and while at GitHub built gh-ost, the triggerless online schema migration tool, and freno, a cooperative throttling service. At PlanetScale he is a maintainer of Vitess, where he has led work on online schema migrations and VTOrc. He was named a MySQL Legend in 2024 and is a regular speaker at FOSDEM and Percona Live.
Shlomi Noach
Author of orchestrator and gh-ost, and a maintainer of Vitess at PlanetScale.