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samlambert

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About samlambert

CEO @ PlanetScale.com Twitter: @isamlambert Email: s@planetscale.com

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    Comment #49213494

    we have not once claimed postgres is under our control. i don't think you understand how open source works but thats ok.

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    Comment #48935584

    > I want to see it fail first. your lack of experience at scale doesn't really invalidate this architecture

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    Comment #48935569

    > Transactional queries are usually limited to something like "get a single record, preferably from cache". simply wrong

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    Comment #48825536

    More details on this are coming soon.

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    Comment #48825478

    We are already moving Neki customers into production. Nobody else is even close. PlanetScale doesn't spend our days yapping about what we are going to do. We just do it.

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    Comment #48614398

    We have seen them benchmarking us before. I assume we won because they didn't include

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    Comment #47239031

    Hi Pedro, I am sure there are ways the Drizzle and PlanetScale will be able to integrate. If we do it will all being using open specs and standards so other database providers can …

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    Comment #47234015

    We are so excited to be working with the incredible Drizzle team! I am around to answer questions if anyone has any.

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    Comment #46277435

    It will be faster and a lot easier to use than Aurora.

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    Comment #46277063

    Thank you for the feedback.

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    Comment #46276888

    there aren't per customer IOPs limits but the CPU will be the bottleneck.

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    Comment #46276867

    It's a durability thing, we need to make sure writes are replicated off to at least one node. There might be avenues to get Metal down to single node in the future.

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    Comment #46276467

    Really excited for more people to get to use Metal. Let me know if you have any questions.

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    Comment #46276014

    Close enough, welcome back PHPmyadmin. Seriously though this is cool. Thank you for sharing.

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    Comment #46218843

    Let’s Encrypt is an incredible project and the internet is better off for it. If you ever have questions about vitess or need help please let me know.

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    Comment #45802854

    This is high availability and unlimited IOPs at $50 a month. It's likely impossible to find cheaper hosted Postgres with comparable features.

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    Comment #45773386

    for sure. it makes money for us and will lead to more usage. i am stoked we have this.

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    Comment #45771683

    correcting this. i've been proven wrong we did say forever.

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    Comment #45771566

    i have said almost exactly this so many times since it happened

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    Comment #45771553

    read the timestamps, i did not post it after the wayback.

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    Comment #45771542

    go ahead and ask the questions i will answer

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    Comment #45771536

    wow we did you are right. I am corrected. That's not good.

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    Comment #45768722

    thank you

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    Comment #45768705

    we did. we called it the Hobby plan. we never said forever.