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by PlanetScale
Who uses, recommends or left PlanetScale, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
1 person and 1 company
Moving to PlanetScale was a game changer for the team, as we historically run pretty light, and time previously spent maintaining a fairly large bespoke architecture can now be spent on developer experience tooling that makes current and future developers’ lives easier.
Cash App moving its Vitess fleet from its own datacenters to PlanetScale
2025-03-11·code.cash.app ↗
That said, I'd personally pick Planetscale in this situation.
The conclusion of his benchmark of Aurora Serverless, the RDS Data API and PlanetScale.
2021-10-20·thdxr.com ↗
i analyzed a weeks worth of data via honeycomb + planetscale mcp and opencode2's codemode
Describing the stack he used to analyse a week of data and mail affected users; he used PlanetScale's MCP server.
2026-09-03·x.com ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.
The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.
What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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