Topic
Planetscale
2 episodes
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PlanetScale the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres
Justy and Cody react to PlanetScale’s pitch that its cloud databases are built around speed, scaling, and operational simplicity, with Vitess for horizontally sharded MySQL and PlanetScale Postgres for managed PostgreSQL. They dig into the actual mechanism claims, where the sharding story is real, where the marketing gets broad, and who would actually feel the difference.
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The feedback loops behind Kubernetes — PlanetScale
A PlanetScale engineer breaks down the control loops under Kubernetes by walking through the 'gaps' from running Postgres in a single container to a distributed controller. The piece argues Kubernetes operators are just visible implementations of a classic feedback loop (like a thermostat or cruise control), and asks us to start by ignoring Kubernetes entirely while the loop is built by hand first.