PlanetScale Management with Sam Lambert

PlanetScale Management with Sam Lambert

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.

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