We had a talented engineer apply to PlanetScale but they told us they are ethically opposed to using AI. How do people think this is a possible stance in 2026?
I am going to start posting more here. What kind of database content do people want?
- @planetscale.com by @samlambert.com: A MySQL-compatible serverless database with built-in scaling, branching, and non-blocking schema changes.
Ruby startup demo: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale. San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025.
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🔹 planetscale.com — Zero-to-Sharded in Minutes @samlambert.com at #sfruby live-sharded a MySQL cluster with zero application changes and it worked instantly. - Vitess handles ID generation and routing Watching “unsharded -> sharded -> serving traffic” in minutes felt unreal.
PlanetScale now supports PgBouncers (connection poolers) for your replicas. Connection pooling is broadly important for databases, but especially for Postgres because of its process-per-connection architecture. Don't know what that means? I have the perfect article!
PlanetScale@planetscale.com · 10mo agoYou can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas. This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.
Schema recommendations are available for Postgres databases. We analyze your database daily and provide recommendations for optimization: - Remove redundant indexes - Prevent primary key ID exhaustion - Drop unused tables and indexes - Rebuild bloated tables and indexes
This week on Mostly Technical, @aaronfrancis.com talks to @ianlandsman.com about how he reunited with @samlambert.com to launch his new YouTube channel and the incredible news he learned in the middle of emceeing Laracon.
Issue #337 of Off-by-none is out! In this issue, Amazon Nova Act brings AI agents to your IDE, Cloudflare backs Ladybird to push the open web forward, and PlanetScale for Postgres goes GA. #offbynone offbynone.io/issues/337/
Postgres Goes PlanetScale 🐘 - Off-by-none
In this issue, Amazon Nova Act brings AI agents to your IDE, Cloudflare backs Ladybird to push the open web forward, and PlanetScale for Postgres goes GA.
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13 Aurora clusters to a sleek move onto PlanetScale. Intercom’s database journey wasn’t just a migration, it was a rethink. On the latest Screaming in the Cloud, @bscanlan.bsky.social (Senior Principal Engineer @ Intercom) joins Corey Quinn to talk about..
- Why Aurora became operational pain - How PlanetScale’s partnership-driven model beat AWS’s building-block approach - Intercom’s pivot to AI agents post-ChatGPT - And why the shrinking pipeline of systems engineers is a growing concern. Listen 🎧: www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/scre...
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Listen to @bscanlan.bsky.social talking to @quinnypig.com about how Intercom moved from AWS Aurora to @planetscale.com t.co/ZlRtVVr7Rs
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/from-aurora-to-planetscale-intercom-s-database-evolution-with-brian-scanlan/
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Database summary card shown on @planetscale.com dashboard. Metrics link to corresponding pages. This example has two keyspaces, the sharded one running on NVMe Metal storage.
Anyone want to jump on a zoom to import their postgres database to @planetscale.com? We've got a coupon $100 for you
Will it recommend moving to @planetscale.com instead? Because based upon most of the analyses I've run, it probably should.
AWS What's New Skeetbot@aws-skeetbot.lastweekinaws.com · last yr.Cost Optimization Hub supports recommendations for Amazon Aurora Cost Optimization Hub now offers Aurora database recommendations to identify idle instances and optimize configurations. View and prioritize recommendations across accounts and regions, with estimated savings factoring in discounts.
we have a postgres -> PlanetScale import tools that are ready for release soon. if you want some while glove help using them while we test, email me: s@planetscale.com
$20K/month is where your AWS bill changes the most. •$6K on RDS IOPS. •$4K on transit charges between AZs you forgot •$3K on NAT gateways passing idle traffic •$2K on S3 PUTs from the microservice the principal engineer wrote •$5K on CloudWatch logs
Vectors + Metal is an insane combo. We made vector storage and search into MySQL meaning PlanetScale is the first RDBMS to allow vector search as part of a full SQL query. You can pre and post filter while doing vector lookups reducing 3-4 queries into 1
PlanetScale@planetscale.com · last yr.PlanetScale vectors is now GA! We have made vectors a first-class part of MySQL - focusing on robustness to make sure vector support is as solid as every other data type MySQL supports. pscale.link/vectors
Intercom saw a significant improvement in both tail latency and hardware cost reduction after switching to Metal. “PlanetScale Metal has been a game changer for Intercom. All of our biggest, most critical PlanetScale databases now run on Metal.” Read their story here: pscale.link/int
Evolving Intercom’s database infrastructure: Lessons and progress
An update on the progress we've made on the overhaul of our database architecture. Find out how PlanetScale Metal has unlocked greater scalability, performance improvements, and zero-downtime maintena...
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Based on price, performance, and (ahem) reliability, I’m really puzzled as to who’d pick Aurora over PlanetScale. Am I missing something obvious?
PlanetScale@planetscale.com · last yr.⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡ - Blazing fast NVMe drives - Unlimited IOPS - Drastic reductions in latency - And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
Seven days after I joined @planetscale.com, I pitched what would become PlanetScale Metal to @samlambert.com. Now all of PlanetScale's customers can run Vitess the way Slack runs Vitess, on the fastest NVMe drives you can get in the cloud. planetscale.com/blog/planets...
PlanetScale Metal: There’s no replacement for displacement — PlanetScale
Learn how PlanetScale Metal was built and how we ensured it is safe.
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I've been helping the open source Vitess team with a rebrand, starting with an updated logo. The mark represents horizontal database sharding. Hopefully a new site design will follow soon.
I love monorepo build tools because I want to constantly be on the verge of walking into the sea.
how do people not understand that wire protocol compatibility is a different thing from syntax, behavior, and data format compatibility?
it’s incredibly difficult for a male over the age of 35 to wear a baseball cap without looking like a toddler
whenever you log onto a new server you have to run ‘w’ a few times to let it know you are there. just like patting a horse on its head.
"now we are at scale i am really glad we rely on stored procedures and triggers" - nobody ever
i’m not actually in it for the christmas dinner. for me it’s all about the leftovers sandwiches.
