This document summarizes the author's first 90 days of experience with Vitess, an open source database proxy. It provides an overview of Vitess, including that it sits between applications and MySQL to provide routing, query consolidation, and other features. It also discusses Vitess terminology, questions about MySQL compatibility, consistency models, and other quirks and features. The document concludes with a discussion of the best use cases for Vitess and areas where it could be improved.