Operational Excellence Is the Moat with Sam Lambert

About this episode

Sam Lambert discusses Planetscale's new Postgres support and the importance of operational excellence in database providers.

Today, Sam Lambert from Planetscale is back for a third time. Planetscale just announced Planetscale Postgres, so we had to get Sam back to tell us how and why they decided to add support for Postgres. It's always great to have Sam on -- he brings great stories about real customers and honest insight about the state of the database industry. In this episode, we talk about the road to Postgres and how operational excellence is the only true advantage in database providers. Sam walks us through the current Planetscale Postgres offering, along with details on Nova, a new sharded Postgres project that Planetscale is working on. Along the way, we get updates on Planetscale Metal, how demand has been for Planetscale Postgres, and future plans for Planetscale.

People in this episode

Guest: Sam Lambert

Topics covered

• operational excellence
• database providers
• Postgres support
• Planetscale updates
• customer stories
• sharded Postgres

Keywords

• Planetscale
• Postgres
• operational excellence
• database industry
• Nova
• sharded Postgres
• customer stories
• Planetscale Metal

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Planetscale

Products: Planetscale Postgres, Nova, Planetscale Metal

Places: database industry

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