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Talk by Max Englander
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/building-postgres-dbaas-open-source
PlanetScale for Postgres is a database as a service, launched in September of 2025, composed largely of open source materials. In this talk, we'll discuss how we approached this project, what factors informed our technology choices, some of the nuances and sharp edges we've encountered because of those choices, and some interesting ways that we've stitched these components together into a cohesive system.
Talk by Max Englander
socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/building-postgres-dbaas-open-source
PlanetScale for Postgres is a database as a service, launched in September of 2025, composed largely of open source materials. In this talk, we'll discuss how we approached this project, what factors informed our technology choices, some of the nuances and sharp edges we've encountered because of those choices, and some interesting ways that we've stitched these components together into a cohesive system.
