Making the last database you’ll ever need

Founders Talk: Startups, CEOs, Leadership

This week Adam is joined by Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale. Now that PlanetScale is in general availability, Adam had to get Sam on the show to talk about the behind the scenes of building this database platform, how this is the last database you’ll ever need and what that means for developers, why serverless, its open source underpinnings with Vitess, and a preview of what’s to come.

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Featuring:

• Sam Lambert – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• planetscale.com
• PlanetScale raises $50M Series C as its enterprise database service hits general availability
• PlanetScale raises $30M Series B for its database service
• Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers.
• Sam Lambert Appointed New CEO of PlanetScale
• PlanetScale is now generally available
• PlanetScale’s Changelog
• Bring your data to PlanetScale
• Introducing PlanetScale Managed Cloud
• PlanetScale documentation + source on GitHub
• Vitess + source on GitHub
• Vitess on CNCF
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Vitess Graduation

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