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Software at scale reveals the cracks. Managing a system for a single use-case (databases or otherwise) can make it seem like a perfect solution. It just might be for that narrow environment! At scale you see all the edge cases because you're operating on so many workloads.

6/1/26, 1:37 pm0 reposts2 likes

Ben

@benjdd.com

6 Jan

At PlanetScale we observe this first-hand for both MySQL and Postgres. We then get to go tackle these hard-but-fun engineering problems, so our customers don't have to.