Podcast Season 2 · Episode 19
Enterprise Databases that Scale
James Q Quick teaches us about how Planetscale's ability to infinitely scale SQL horizontally at the push of a button.

Guests
Questions
- Since the last time you were on you have moved from Auth0 to Planet Scale
- Did you get any time to spend on yourself, your channel?
- How was the transition? It often take time to learn a whole new team and product.
- What is Planetscale?
- What does the “scale of open source” mean?
- What is Vitess?
- What does Sharded MySQL mean?
- If this is serverless is it running on AWS or GCP?
- Is Branching of a database just a copy?
- Will running an ALTER for your schema require you to have downtime?
- CLI
- Pricing
- Foreign Key Constraints
- Using Prisma with Planetscale
Alex Patterson
Picks
Alex Patterson: Envato Elements
Alex Patterson: Raycast
Brittney Postma: Inventing Anna
Brittney Postma: Sirens Streams - Planetscale with SvelteKit
James Q Quick: Sennheiser Professional MKE 400