PlanetScale

“PlanetScale was the perfect fit for that because it was the promise and familiarity of MySQL with the unlimited scale of Vitess”

“We are a relatively small team, but our customer's customers, the end users of this app, is on the scale of billions. We wanted something were we could start small... but could scale to as many users as we needed.”

“The whole team can now work on our database and make changes in their own database branches. We don’t have to worry about any mistakes because we can simply decide not to merge the branch.”

“If the same job can be done in less time with fewer efforts, it will always result in more revenue and opportunities. Features will be released sooner and more customers will come in. When building new features, I would say we reduce 10% of the total time spent using PlanetScale. There are many feature plans that we will now be able to launch sooner.”

“The ability to revert a schema change has been a huge boost in confidence for our team. It’s ended our migration anxiety.”

“Every time we did a migration or something went wrong, everyone was anxious to make any updates to the database.”

“We want to focus on building features for our customers. Hiring a DevOps team member would not directly result in more features and therefore we prefer not hiring such a person.”

“Databases are hard. We would rather PlanetScale manage them. We wanted the support PlanetScale offers because they are the experts in the field. We’ve seen this come to fruition in our relationship.”

“We have very strict regulatory requirements that can feel painful to the average engineer, however PlanetScale was a strong partner in grinding through our asks, leaving us in a place where everyone was happy.”

“We knew how deeply the PlanetScale team understands database services, and they were literally the only team we trusted enough to consider leaving behind Aurora.”

“Our migration to Vitess is more than just a technological upgrade; it's a strategic move to future-proof our database architecture for the next decade and beyond.”

“We chose PlanetScale to host our most demanding Vitess and Postgres workloads, doing millions of queries per second on petabytes of data.”

“Having Insights where it captures 100% of queries scratches an itch like nothing else can.”

“This is more valuable than any feature. It’s a people thing.”

“Our team wants to focus on helping our customers meet their health and fitness goals, not the database servers.”

“It doesn’t make sense to go out and hire a DBA. It’s hard to find a full-stack developer who can write, design frontend and backend code, and all the other stuff we need to do with a small team. With PlanetScale, those resources are available to us.”

“Reliability and performance are baseline things that are there with PlanetScale.”

“The most important thing with any database is that it works. All the cool features in the world aren’t worth anything if your database goes down.”

“PlanetScale has the expertise to say yeah, the best practice would be this. They give experienced advice. I’m a developer that has to deal with the database because you have to store data somewhere. I’m not a database geek.”

“The PlanetScale team has been super responsive anytime we had questions or needed help. Having our Slack channel where I could reach out and someone would get back to me within a couple minutes has been super helpful. Not just during the sales and onboarding process, but all the way through.”

“This was one of the main drivers for us liking PlanetScale. I’m onboarding the technology platform, but also a team of experts that know way beyond what I do about databases. I haven’t looked at a server load graph for the database since we’ve onboarded.”

“Planning for massive scale while also rapidly iterating on our feature set was a demanding place to be—especially for a small team at a startup—and PlanetScale was able to deliver world class operations, a scalable platform, and the flexibility the business needed to grow both the member base and the feature set. It just does what we need.”

“PlanetScale support is always extremely quick to help when we have an issue. This might be an ask to dig into performance on a particular cluster, or a feature request needed to work around a specific issue…Some of our requests can be pretty odd, given that we have a pretty odd workload, and they'll think about them deeply to either come up with a solution or suggest an alternate path.”

“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.”

“The actual cutover was almost comically boring, which is exactly where I wanted to be after all the upfront work we put in.”