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That’s what happens when all your best DB engineers jump ship to go to PlanetScale I guess.

I know this could be taken as a compliment but I don’t feel it’s a fair assessment. Maintaining large scale SaaS services is a constant challenge, and the GitHub team work really hard to build a platform that serves a gigantic community of developers. Downtime happens to everyone.

I worked at GitHub up until last October. I’m keenly aware of the challenges of maintaining it, and how much hard work the teams puts in.

However I think it’s hard to ignore in light of recent issues that there has been a large amount of attrition in the last year or so, specifically to PlanetScale by some of the most senior/database focused engineers.

Edit: just noticed that you’re the CEO of PlanetScale. I don’t mean this as a slight against you or GitHub or the folks that moved. I genuinely do just think that the number of people who shifted over left GitHub with a fairly large experience and knowledge gap. I don’t think anyone is to blame, it’s just an outcome of organic evolution and changing of a technical organization.

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