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Sam Lambert great job. everybody was saying the whole internet was down, but my app was still up, thanks to planetscale!

This is happening! José Valim will speak at the special SF Ruby x Elixir meetup at PlanetScale HQ already on Wed, June 18. José is not only the author of Elixir language, a member of core Ruby and Rails teams in the past, and an inspiring speaker–he's now the founder of

really good report and delivered impressively quickly blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-ser…

blame vs accountability

Tomer Moran we should blog about this but basically we have no single points of failure and we truly share nothing. everything is multi region by default and our operator does over 100 million failovers a year. essentially we have an extreme tolerance to failure.

Sam Lambert Tomer Moran Thank you for setting things up this way! Reminds us of why it’s great to work with PlanetScale

It's wild that Databricks chose to pay $1 billion (with a 200x multiple) for the slowest Postgres, Neon - Serverless Postgres 🧐

the wifi is back

Been using PS from day one, and it’s been infinitely reliable.

Trying something a little bit different tomorrow 👀

👉 PlanetScale

Startup slop is real. jihad.house/notes/startup-…

been a minute since I paid attention to how people are thinking about distributed systems in 2025 and jfc now I understand why anthropic has two 9s of availability.

if you get good at systems design and then use cursor to build you can create incredibly robust products. this is the opposite of vibe coding and still leverages AI at full power.

Using AI and agents for coding is insanely powerful but real engineers don't really want to associate with "vibe coding" which is distinctly different. What term can we use for real software engineering powered by AI?

Armin Ronacher ⇌ Sam Lambert basically the only way to make the economics of "lots of apps with no users" work l