I am going to start posting more here. What kind of database content do people want?

Ruby startup demo: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale. San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025. YouTube video by Evil Martians

- @planetscale.com by @samlambert.com: A MySQL-compatible serverless database with built-in scaling, branching, and non-blocking schema changes.

🔹 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!

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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.

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.

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/

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA.

planetscale.com/blog/planets...

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...

Listen to @bscanlan.bsky.social talking to @quinnypig.com about how Intercom moved from AWS Aurora to @planetscale.com t.co/ZlRtVVr7Rs

Grid of database metrics like number of tables, branches, and storage size.

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.

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

Metal — PlanetScale PlanetScale Metal gives you the best performance with blazing fast NVMe drives.

planetscale.com/metal

$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

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...

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

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 Metal: There’s no replacement for displacement — PlanetScale Learn how PlanetScale Metal was built and how we ensured it is safe.

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...

it's horrific

The old and new Vitess logos

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

its insane that there isn't a new apple mouse with magsafe