Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 10 hours ago

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WorkOS CEO Michael Grinich sits down with Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale, for a wide-ranging conversation on modern databases, the rise of Postgres, and how AI is reshaping data infrastructure.

PlanetScale is known as one of the fastest, most scalable database platforms in the world—built on Vitess, the open-source technology originally created at YouTube to scale MySQL to billions of queries per second. Now the company is expanding into Postgres, launching new products, and supporting the explosive growth of AI-native applications.

In this conversation, Sam breaks down:

• Why Postgres has become the default for new developers
• How PlanetScale scales some of the largest production databases on earth
• The story behind removing (and later reintroducing) their entry-tier plans
• How modern app frameworks and real-time sync layers pair with PlanetScale
• Why AI companies are driving unprecedented data growth—and what that means for infrastructure
• What’s coming next for database reliability, performance, and developer experience