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Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)
Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki “do-over” of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of whether to open source any of it. Plus: why he thinks the sleeping, lazy giants should be broken up.
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Featuring:
Show Notes:
PlanetScale products and features
- PlanetScale Postgres
- PlanetScale Metal
- Neki
- Vitess
- Database branching
- Non-blocking schema changes
- Deploy requests
- Schema reverts
- Database Traffic Control
- Query Insights
- PlanetScale MCP server
- PlanetScale Skills
- Benchmarking Postgres
Databases and infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- NVM Express (NVMe)
- Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud
Companies and tools
Talks and prior episodes
- Sam Lambert: Agents and Infrastructure — Cursor Compile 2026
- Making the last database you’ll ever need — Founders Talk #85
- Bringing Vitess to Postgres — Changelog Interviews #651
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