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PlanetScale
Company blog · planetscale.com/blog · on HN as samlambertdataprogramming
PlanetScale is the company blog at planetscale.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2018, 226 different Hacker News readers have linked it 451 times, most often “Generics can make your Go code slower”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 5 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link PlanetScale's technical posts on B-tree indexes, Go generics performance, Postgres sharding and data topology. Most comments point to the blog as background, not as writing to judge.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
Most-linked posts?
- Generics can make your Go code slower15 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
- PlanetScale – the last database you'll ever need15 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2018-12-14
- B-Trees and Database Indexes7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2024-09-09
- /pricing6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-11-16
- Video Conferencing with Postgres5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-27
- The problem with using a UUID primary key in MySQL5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-03-19
- How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-11-15
- The Lifecycle of a Sharded Postgres Query5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-09-10
- Database Sharding4 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-01-09
- The principles of extreme fault tolerance4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2025-07-03
What Hacker News says?
> Every major technological startup turned away from BSD/Apache 2.0 licenses due to inability to compete with cloud providers without technological edge. No, there are plenty that still use permissive licenses. GitLab uses MIT and a custom license for EE: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/licensing.html Deno uses an MIT license and has some secret sauce that is currently just in hosted services AFAIK: https://g…
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on “Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached”Submitted Generics can make your Go code slower as a story · 449 points
HN discussionYou don't run the database itself there, you connect to it remotely. I've not had a chance to try them yet, but PlanetScale Portals look like a great solution there. https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-planetscale-portals...
Comment linking /blog/introducing-planetscale-portals-read-only-regions
on “Deno raises $21M”Submitted IO Devices and Latency as a story · 443 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | REMOTE, Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scalable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for…
Comment linking /blog/planetscaledb-delivers-true-multi-cloud-multi-region-clusters-on-aws-gcp-azure
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted B-Trees and Database Indexes as a story · 351 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2019)”Submitted PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA as a story · 306 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizze…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Neki – Sharded Postgres as a story · 280 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Full Stack Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) , Front End/Back End Engineers, Sales Engineers | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clust…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted PlanetScale – Database for Developers as a story · 279 points
HN discussionhttps://www.planetscale.com/blog/non-blocking-schema-changes disclaimer: I work at PlanetScale
Comment linking /blog/non-blocking-schema-changes
on “Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0”Submitted Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ as a story · 252 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2019)”Submitted Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess as a story · 251 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizze…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2018)”Submitted PlanetScale is now generally available as a story · 246 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizze…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2018)”Submitted PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases as a story · 233 points
HN discussionFor this particular one I used d3.js, but honestly this isn't really the type of thing it's designed for. I've also used GSAP for this type of thing on this article I wrote about database sharding. https://planetscale.com/blog/database-sharding
Comment linking /blog/database-sharding
on “IO Devices and Latency”Submitted Tin: full-text search for Postgres as a story · 230 points
HN discussionThis is really cool, and PlanetScale Metal looks really solid, too. Always a huge sucker for seeing latency huge latency drops on releases: https://planetscale.com/blog/upgrading-query-insights-to-met... .
Comment linking /blog/upgrading-query-insights-to-metal
on “IO Devices and Latency”Submitted One million queries per second with MySQL as a story · 213 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer | Mountain View, Ca | Fill-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone to run Vitess clusters at the same scale as YouTube. For any candidates tired of the quizze…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)”Submitted PlanetScale Boost as a story · 210 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Developer Advocate, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scaleable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)”Submitted How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster as a story · 206 points
HN discussionPlanetScale | Backend Engineer, Frontend Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, Marketing, Sales | Mountain View, Ca | Full-Time | https://planetscale.com/careers PlanetScale is an early stage startup building the worlds most scalable database systems. We were founded by some of the engineers behind the open source product Vitess ( vitess.io ) and we are building out the ability for anyone t…
Comment linking /news/planetscale-aws-benchmark
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 as a story · 184 points
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