Postgres at PlanetScale

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!