Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for Postgres. It's always great to have Sam on -- he brings great stories about real customers and honest insight about the state of the database industry.
In this episode, we talk about the road to Postgres and how operational excellence is the only true advantage in database providers. Sam walks us through the current Planetscale Postgres offering, along with details on Nova, a new sharded Postgres project that Planetscale is working on. Along the way, we get updates on Planetscale Metal, how demand has been for Planetscale Postgres, and future plans for Planetscale.
*Timestamps*
01:16 Start
06:37 The Timeline
15:15 Not Much IP in the Database Market
21:48 PSBouncer
24:17 Zonal affinity
27:38 Query Insights
29:34 How to sign up
32:02 Convex
34:37 Other data stores?
56:18 Acquisitions
