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Re:PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases by saxenaabhi on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:20PM (#45765517)
@samlambert what exactly makes it hard? Isn't it as simple as setting synchronous_commit=remote_apply or does planetscale have a custom strategy or are there other operational issues?

Just asking since I find it both the planetscale's engineering and its impact on competitive landscape very interesting.

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Re:PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases by samlambert on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:24PM (#45765561)
you have to make sure you will never terminate these nodes, that you have all the operations maturity to cycle them responsibly, and resize them. I am sure they will get there one day but most people are still figuring out how to run databases on k8s so it's a long road.
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