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551: PlanetScale with Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh

Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh talk about PlanetScale, what Vitess is, if PlanetScale is for both side and big projects, what read only regions are, what schema changes are, and how PlanetScale compares to other projects.

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu

Iheanyi Ekechukwu

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Iheanyi Ekechukwu is a Houston-based software engineer and angel investor, working at PlanetScale.

Mike Coutermarsh

Mike Coutermarsh

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Mike is a software engineer living in Pennsylvania working at PlanetScale.

Time Jump Links

  • 00:12 Data bearding
  • 01:26 Guest introduction
  • 02:01 Work history for Mike and Iheanyi
  • 09:55 What is PlanetScale?
  • 11:39 What is Vitess?
  • 21:38 Is PlanetScale for side projects and big projects?
  • 26:09 What are read only regions?
  • 31:13 Is it Postgres or MySQL?
  • 34:15 What are branches at PlanetScale?
  • 35:53 What about schema changes?
  • 46:47 How does PlanetScale compare to other datatabase apps?
  • 49:34 Is PlanetScale something people can use now?

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