Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

Postgres at PlanetScale (Interview)

Author: Changelog Media August 25, 2026 Duration: 1:42:17
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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