Jiten Vaidya

Founder/Board member @planetscaledata. Reading, Hiking, Cooking, SFF. Ex-USDS/DBX/Youtube/Google. Private initiative, properly regulated, leads to social good.

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

The power of Metal. This is a real customer importing 10TB of data into Postgres in just over 2 hours.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

We're excited to share we're partnering with @stripe as part of their Stripe Projects developer preview.

Create and manage PlanetScale Postgres and Vitess databases straight from the Stripe CLI. All of your dev tool provisioning and billing now centralized in one place.

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

Traffic Control is the database feature I've wanted for a decade at least.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

Introducing Database Traffic Control: a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale.

Enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic to protect against unexpected and dangerous workloads.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

Migrate your Postgres database to PlanetScale https://t.co/u6AWQO1XKu

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

we are hiring. if you are very good with distributed systems i want to talk to you!

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

"We’ve teamed up with PlanetScale because we wanted to partner with a database provider that we could confidently recommend to our users: one that shares our obsession with performance, reliability and developer experience. These are all critical factors for any development team building a serious application."

https://t.co/qkbbQqy6AB

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

@mintlify We’re hosting a livestream in 1 hour where we’ll give you an overview of PlanetScale for Postgres and answer all of your questions. Watch on YouTube or on X.

https://t.co/zm3kVX9YPx

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

We’ve also revamped our documentation with @mintlify to better support the addition of our new Postgres product. You can find the dedicated PlanetScale for Postgres documentation here:

https://t.co/Z0kuKHm49Y

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA.

https://t.co/1clVoM7M2T

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

i loved sitting down with @aarondfrancis for this conversation. incredible person and interviewer.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

We've brought PlanetScale Insights to Postgres.

This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

PlanetScale Postgres allows you to queue parameter changes and they are rolled out for you with zero downtime.

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

while the toy databases compare their database provisioning times i'll share that last week i watched a customer spin up a 192 shard @PlanetScale cluster (600 nodes, 23,040,000 IOPs) in 24 minutes. 98% of this time was consumed by amazon.

[PlanetScale @PlanetScale]

Network-attached storage, like EBS, has some major downsides:

- Going over the network to read/write data adds latency
- Bandwidth limitations lead to much lower allocated IOPS

Attaching an SSD straight to the server solves both of these problems. And that's exactly what you get with PlanetScale Metal.

PlanetScale's robust replication and automated failover infrastructure allows us to use compute instances with directly-attached SSDs. Data is replicated 3+ times over 3 availability zones, making Metal the perfect choice for applications that require low latency and high IOPS.

[Ben Dicken @BenjDicken]

Failover is the foundation of high availability. At PlanetScale we perform over 100k each month, 99%+ of them on purpose.

It's used for version upgrades, node TTLs, and unexpected failures.

So what is a failover?

[ricky b @rbranson]

this is the most honest and transparent vendor-sponsored database benchmark i’ve ever seen. major kudos to ben.

they really tried to get the most out of the competitors products and still prevailed!

[James Cowling @jamesacowling]

Updated graph from migrating the Chef Convex instance from Aurora to PlanetScale. Did I mention it's cheaper too?

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

Next Tuesday we will be opening our office all day to people that want early access and help migrating to our Postgres product. We will end the day with a rager of a party. Sign up here: https://t.co/7NT1FLOqTM

[Jamie Turner @jamwt]

Simply put, if you need hosted Postgres, this is the one to use.