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Not accurate IMO. It's marketing a feature for giant users like YouTube and GitHub as important for everyone. Neon and sqlite are winning from my perspective. The BlueSky move to thousands of sqlite databases should inspire similar architectures in other apps. Vercel has stopped gushing about PlanetScale in particular and now offers never options including Neon.

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??? Bluesky isn't at all a typical application architecture. The code is gross and insanely complex for a regular app. Vercel still gushes all the time about Planetscale, and so does Cloudflare. Neon is the provider du jour for postgres

Well, you are welcome to do your own review and share the results. At the time we were deciding between all the major DB as a Service providers. Not everyone has the same architecture as Bluesky, and from reading the code it seems pretty mechanical and complex.

I'm welcome to simply ignore PlanetScale unless I want to learn MySQL or need some performance characteristics that only make a difference in rare cases. Even if it is good enough I don't want to read the MySQL docs. If PlanetScale wants their product to be more welcoming, they'll have to distance it more from Oracle than it is.

? MySQL, in this case, is simply a protocol. Planetscale and Vitess are not affiliated with Oracle at all. I don't understand your point.

Furthermore, we use Planetscale from an ORM. I don't think I have "read the MySQL docs" in years.

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