Postgres at PlanetScale
Summary
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.
Original Text
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.
Join the discussion
Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!
Sponsors:
Buildkite – You deserve better CI. Buildkite is engineered for frontier scale and trusted by the teams setting the pace.
WorkOS – Auth for CLI with AuthKit from WorkOS — Bring secure browser-based login to your terminal apps using the OAuth Device Flow, with the same polished AuthKit experience plus SSO, MFA, and passkeys. Learn more at WorkOS.com and AuthKit.com
Coder.com – Secure environments where devs and agents work in parallel. Open by design. Secure by default.
Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes.
Featuring:
Sam Lambert – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
PlanetScale products and features
PlanetScale Postgres
PlanetScale Metal
Neki
Vitess
Database branching
Non-blocking schema changes
Deploy requests
Schema reverts
Database Traffic Control
Query Insights
PlanetScale MCP server
PlanetScale Skills
Benchmarking Postgres
Databases and infrastructure
PostgreSQL
MySQL
NVM Express (NVMe)
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Limitless Database
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
Companies and tools
Cursor
Y Combinator
Kick
Square
Cash App
GitHub
Pierre
Salesforce
Supabase
Multigres
Talks and prior episodes
Sam Lambert: Agents and Infrastructure — Cursor Compile 2026
Making the last database you’ll ever need — Founders Talk #85
Bringing Vitess to Postgres — Changelog Interviews #651
Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!
Lotu Radar provides attributed news summaries and links to the original publisher. Full reporting and copyright remain with the source.