PlanetScale is riding the Postgres wave (while still loving MySQL)

Sam Lambert, with two decades of experience in scaling relational databases, shares insights from his work at GitHub and PlanetScale, a company built on the MySQL sharding solution Vitess. Despite MySQL's technical strengths, Postgres is gaining popularity due to sociological factors like Oracle's poor stewardship and Heroku's user-friendly platform. Postgres's developer-friendly features, though, come with security risks, prompting companies like Amazon and PlanetScale to validate secure extensions. PlanetScale, known for simplifying database operations, recently introduced a $5 tier to accommodate developers' preference for cost-effective, single-node setups over more expensive high-availability options. Lambert also highlights the rapid data growth in AI companies, with PlanetScale supporting these demands by focusing on providing a reliable database service rather than chasing trends. This approach aligns with Lambert's philosophy of building solid infrastructure tools, allowing the market to seek them out naturally.