samlambert

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Lifecycle of a Sharded Postgres Query(planetscale.com)
3 points by samlambert 2d ago|0 comments
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by samlambert 5d ago
Not being rude, I just do not like the work of my company being written off and under appreciated with comments like yours. Saying it's an open source alternative when it is clearly not is incredibly disingenuous. Anyone can start a pr
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by samlambert 5d ago
Neki right now: Multiple live shards: yes Query routing across shards: yes Online shard splitting: yes Zero-downtime resharding: yes Multiple independent shard groups: yes Data topology management: yes HA / automated failover: yes Mult
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by samlambert 5d ago
It cost $250,000 to do this run but it feels worth it.
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by samlambert 5d ago
People think comments like this really bother me as if I believe that I've missed out on any dollars at all from you, as if you have the buying power or ability to drive any workloads that would in any way move the needle on my revenue
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by samlambert 6d ago
undecided right now
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by samlambert 6d ago
thank you!
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by samlambert 6d ago
correct. AWS do anti-competitive stuff to us all the time we can't make it any easier for them.
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by samlambert 6d ago
i have been struggling to hire enough physicists
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by samlambert 6d ago
yes
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by samlambert 6d ago
every metric we have proves otherwise
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by samlambert 6d ago
It makes me so happy to hear you had a good experience. Thank you for being a customer.
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by samlambert 6d ago
what does a mysql pivot mean? like literally what do you think we have done here technically that could be considered a mysql pivot?
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by samlambert 6d ago
very kind of you to say tony
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by samlambert 6d ago
who said open source has no value? I worked at GitHub for 6 years i clearly love open source. We maintain Vitess using our company funds. Why are you going after a small company for defending itself against companies like Amazon but not cri
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by samlambert 6d ago
My customers aren't pretending it's a bad thing that Neki isn't open source.
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by samlambert 6d ago
it works and does sharding
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by samlambert 6d ago
have you ever worked for a customer of AWS? If so you have contributed heavily to the destruction of commercial open source.
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by samlambert 6d ago
I can fully understand why someone would think that.
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by samlambert 6d ago
lol are you an amazon customer?
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by samlambert 6d ago
The largest database to ever run on Aurora MySQL runs on PlanetScale, and the largest database to ever run on Aurora limitless also runs on PlanetScale.
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by samlambert 6d ago
nothing i have said is untrue. a founder of a company leaving to compete out of greed is a bad thing and i am glad to call it out.
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by samlambert 6d ago
How does open source have anything to do with Neki's ability to scale against a service that doesn't even do sharding.
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by samlambert 6d ago
We literally have the counterfactual of the old product and company before he left. We can fully discount Multigres doing anything.
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by samlambert 6d ago
The authors of Neki and this post are here to answer any questions!
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by samlambert 1mo ago
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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by samlambert 2mo ago
> I want to see it fail first. your lack of experience at scale doesn't really invalidate this architecture
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by samlambert 2mo ago
> Transactional queries are usually limited to something like "get a single record, preferably from cache". simply wrong
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by samlambert 2mo ago
More details on this are coming soon.
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by samlambert 2mo ago
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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