Up until this, I was gonna say, fair enough, I appreciate the direct replies from the staff.
But this paragraph settles it for me: PlanetScale as a company has a narcissistic personality which is fine for some I guess. Hopefully one day you will have a product that justifies that huge ego.
It is wild that an employee (lmao CEO) posts this way and it is sanctioned by his employer. I guess you're used to talking this way to your employees. But I am not an employee, so I can't feel your fury.
I am glad it is taking place in public, I can only imagine how poorly you must treat people behind closed doors. At least here people can see it for themselves how unprofessionally this company is run. I wish nothing but patience to your employees, God knows what they must be saying once you're out of the room.
You had one job here, to represent your company in a professional level-headed manner and you couldn't even do that. Such a shame.
Sigh.
Now I have a higher opinion of PS
What you wrote earlier.
>Did any of these companies reach out to them and say "you know, we wouldn't have been able to scale beyond our previous limits without you, thank you so much guys you saved us". If not, this is so insincere that it is cringe.
I guess I will let the rest of HN be the judge.
"We chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on hundreds of terabytes of data." – Sualeh Asif - Chief Product Officer @Anysphere (Cursor)
"Moving to PlanetScale added a 9 to our uptime." - Brian Scanlan @Intercom https://x.com/brian_scanlan/status/1963552743294967877
"In the past we've had issues when something unusual happens on a specific shard, resulting in spiked CPU and poor performance, and since migrating we haven't really seen instances of this, speaking to PlanetScale choosing the correct hardware for our existing load at the outset." - Aaron Young, Engineering Manager @block
It seems like you are reaching pretty hard to find an issue with this statement. Your comment seems to come from a lack of experience scaling databases and not understanding how difficult it is to do what we've done in partnership with our customers. Either that or deep or a high level of insincerity.