Sam Lambert

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

i’m not actually in it for the christmas dinner. for me it’s all about the leftovers sandwiches.

make your wife breakfast

for the first time in my life i am considering buying an android phone

in the next 30 years there will be a mental health crisis because of the realization we are a few generations too early for immortality and gigantic technological change

the academic/theoretical side of the database community is obviously valuable, but most of the debate is irrelevant to how databases run in production

i’m grateful every day

meetings

lol yes

i love my job and the people i work with

do you understand why shared nothing is the ideal architecture? if not, would you like to?

a key part of onboarding customers is the joint sharing of slack emojis

99% of benchmarking is a complete waste of time