PlanetScale Management with Sam Lambert
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Subscribe: RSS
Running a database company requires expertise in both technical and managerial skills. There are deeply technical engineering questions around query paths, scalability, and distributed systems. And there are complex managerial questions around developer productivity and task allocation.
Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale, which is building modern relational database infrastructure. Before PlanetScale he spent several years on infrastructure at GitHub. He joins the show to talk about his work at PlanetScale and the vision for the company.
Sponsorship inquiries: sponsor@softwareengineeringdaily.com
Transcript
Transcript provided by We Edit Podcasts. Software Engineering Daily listeners can go to weeditpodcasts.com to get 15% off the first three months of audio editing and transcription services with code: SED. Thanks to We Edit Podcasts for partnering with SE Daily. Please click here to view this show’s transcript.
Sponsors
If you’re a fellow DevOps, IT, or security professional, then chances are you’ve seen this scenario before: teams so overloaded with expanding responsibilities, escalating cyber threats, and evolving compliance regulations that collaboration suffers—leaving the door open for vulnerabilities.
Puppet, the industry leader for infrastructure automation, invites you to a fireside chat to learn how to increase collaboration and build a culture of joint accountability for compliance and security across your organization.
Join Alex Hin, Senior Product Manager at Puppet, for a discussion of how IT, security, compliance, and risk management teams can work together to protect your organization from risk.
You can join Puppet for the conversation on Thursday, April 7th at 11 AM eastern and start building your own culture of accountability that enhances compliance by registering at events.puppet.com/fireside.
Cox Communications is the largest private broadband company in America, proudly serving 6.5 million homes and businesses across 18 states.
Ever wonder what it’s like to work at Cox Communications? Their technology team is hiring for the best and brightest software engineers, data scientists, scrum masters and more to join the Cox family. They’re looking for people who make things happen- and have fun while doing it. You know, people like you! For more information, go to cox.career/techjobs to find out more about career opportunities at Cox Communications.
Enjoying Software Engineering Daily? Check out the Data Stack Show to hear from more of the brightest minds in technology. You’ll learn how data practitioners from leading companies are solving problems every day, and you’ll get the lowdown on innovations in data tooling from the people building it. Visit www.datastackshow.com today to check out the latest episode today.
Stream provides an easy-to-integrate chat solution for any application. With robust SDKs and an API built for ease of use, scalability, reliability, and security, product teams can focus on what makes their app unique rather than spending months on building a chat infrastructure. Stream’s feature-rich products include robust client-side SDKs for Angular, iOS, iOS Swift/UI, Android, Compose, React, React Native, Flutter, and Unreal support for the most commonly used server-side languages; scalable and secure APIs; and a beautiful UI kit. Check it out at https://getstream.io/
That next late-night call is just waiting to happen.
Get New Relic before it does! And you can get access to the whole
New Relic platform and 100GB of data free, forever – no credit card
required! Sign up at newrelic.com/sedaily
