BIG guest tomorrow on The Good Thing PlanetScale's Sam Lambert is with us, and we’re going DEEP on scale, devtools, and what actually matters when building for devs. New time: 1:30 PM ET. linkedin.com/events/7356456…

Just finished our podcast with Sam Lambert and if you are a PlanetScale customer or thinking of becoming one… You are in great hands. Incredible leader and incredible product

A very common story from a startup's investor update: "Our partnership with <big company> did not go as expected... It was pretty evident that they were trying to take advantage of us... We’re going to walk away from that situation for now. A lot of hard lessons learned."

Esteban Cambiasso: "The secret of the treble team is to be found in the men and in the motivations. We all wanted revenge." Inter Milan's 2010 miracle treble: a story of glory, defiance and, maybe more important... revenge. [Thread - repost]

Essencially, that was the team. A bunch of 'old' guys who had never won the Champions League, had been side characters, had never proven themselves at the top level or had been discarded by their previous clubs. The one thing they had in common: desire.

One big problem we had to solve with Hub was to preview how Query Plans would look like when someone wants to introduce a Schema change. It's important for capacity planning, and in general you want to know how moving a field to another subgraph affects the system.

over and over … startups have higher odds of success putting someone with no sales experience into an early-stage sales role than someone with sales experience

Full convo with Sam Lambert here 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=BzKUm2…

Most people want to be founders. Very few want to sit alone long enough to find something worth building.

I aspire to this level of delusion

It’s 2025 and some teams are STILL trying to reinvent database fundamentals. “We're all looking at papers that are from the '60s.” The physics haven’t changed. The winners are the ones who operate well, not over-engineer.

How will a change in one (or more) of my backends affect my client applications? Will fetches increase? Will fetches be more complex?

Open source is one of the greatest things humans have ever built. No VC. No roadmap. Just millions of people choosing to create together. That’s magic.

My goal is to blow up and have our API conference and then bring random ass guests like Kumar from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle

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PlanetScale CEO Sam Lambert covers innovation in the database space, running infrastructure at scale, and more on the WunderGraph podcast.

What need to be true to achieve your goal? Easy way to figure out what to work on

Thing is that most API Tooling absolutely sucks A gateway here. A control plane and a dashboard there. It's boring. I'm hoping we can change that. wundergraph.com/hub