Articles by samlambert
14

Postgres Traffic Control (planetscale.com)

3

Migrating Supernova to PlanetScale: Faster APIs, Better Insights (getsupernova.ai)

1

The principles of extreme fault tolerance (planetscale.com)

5

Cash App on PlanetScale Metal (cash.app)

35

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) (shellhaters.org)

7

Evolving Intercom's Database Infrastructure (intercom.com)

73

B-Trees and Database Indexes (planetscale.com)

2

If it's not a big number per second then it's not a big number (requestspersecond.fyi)

3

The problem with using a UUID primary key in MySQL (planetscale.com)

2

Database sharding in 200 seconds [video] (youtube.com)

5

Cloudflare Workers vs. AWS Lambda Price-to-Performance Analysis (vantage.sh)

1

We tame High Cardinality by Sharding a stream (last9.io)

11

Developer experience is not a list of features (samlambert.com)

21

Performant database tree traversal with Rails (planetscale.com)

13

Learn CI/CD (boot.dev)

1

How to Tech Lead and Survive (mikecoutermarsh.com)

3

Sharing an SQLite database across containers is surprisingly brilliant (rbranson.medium.com)

1

GitHub Stores 150TB in Vitess (drive.google.com)

20

Twitter scaled reads on their user database (blog.twitter.com)

4

AWS Aurora Global Clusters Explained: What you wish they told you (lavin.me.uk)

1

Impact of DDL Operations on Aurora MySQL Readers (percona.com)

39

What Is a Query Planner? (planetscale.com)

1

Throwback: GitHub survived the largest DDoS ever recorded (wired.com)

3

Some opinionated thoughts on SQL databases (nelhage.com)

45

Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software (inkandswitch.com)

20

Debugging database errors with PlanetScale Insights (planetscale.com)

36

The Shell Hater's Handbook (2010) [video]

160

Whytheluckystiff's original domain back as an archive

45

Faster offset pagination for Rails apps