Ben Dicken
@BenjDicken
databases @planetscale Some stuff I've written: - https://pscale.link/io - https://pscale.link/btrees - https://pscale.link/sharding
I implemented an ssd, hdd, and tape device. In javascript. For a blog.
Can't get over how great the postgres metrics reporting is. The observability we're giving our users is off the charts.
Walked into the PlanetScale office, did a (very) complex migration for ~6 hours, without ANY downtime whatsoever. Walked out with a faster, better, and cheaper supermemory Very excited for this because our customers fully benefit from this
We partnered with @PlanetScale to give you the most performant memory engine engine you've ever seen This means, for our customers supermemory is, - 40% faster - Cheaper - More reliable and performant (up to 1000 QPS!) supermemory.ai/blog/supermemo…
What I can’t get over in this blog is author questions whether provider is responsible for tuning config based on instance size. Uhh yes. Customers select config. It’s full responsibility of provider to give the customer a setup suited for what they selected. That’s the whole…
We wanted to see how our Postgres service ranks among the others on the @PlanetScale benchmarks. The blog post (link in 🧵) reviews in detail the benchmarking methodology, relevancy, fairness, and openness.
My favorite part of our new Postgres product is getting to chat with so many people running really cool booming startups. Postgres community SHIPS.
Got to chat with Sam Lambert again for the PlanetScale Postgres launch. Always great thoughts on running a business, operating databases, and the state of the industry. Cool to see the work that went into offering Postgres plus their big plans for the space :)
We have the awesome Sam Lambert [@isamlambert] from @PlanetScale back for a third time. Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert 🎉 Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for…