S7 E30: Sam Lambert, PlanetScale

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sam Lambert is originally from the UK, and has lived quite a few places during his life. He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds software to be a creative, playful process, and sees people trying to build that away from the process. He feels very lucky to building something that provides fruit and solves problems. Outside of tech, he is married with a 4 year old, and is into cooking and art. I asked about NFT's, given his tech background, but he's not super into that form of art at this time. Sam spent time working at Github as a VP of Engineering, specifically focusing on infrastructure. He and his team came across VITES, the backend that ran YouTube, and he took this amazing framework into his current venture to remix their approach of design and scalability. This is the creation story of PlanetScale. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	We just have to do things to kind of unlock customer's usage of the scale.
0:05.0	But when the product has already run, what, the third, fourth largest website on planet Earth,
0:10.0	scale's kind of in the bag.
0:12.0	We're actually scaling down at this point.
0:14.0	We're trying to scale down tech that has run at the most extreme scale
0:19.0	and make sure that everyone can use it.
0:21.2	We bring it into the hands of everybody, which is kind of a different challenge.
0:25.8	Other database companies, when they take on their biggest customers, it's a real risk.
0:30.4	They really have to make sure they can manage that scale.
0:33.2	We kind of have the opposite.
0:34.5	We're like, well, as long as you stay smaller scale than YouTube.com,
0:37.7	I think we've got you covered.
0:39.9	Hi, I'm Sam Lambert, CEO of Planet Scale.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.4	I'm your host Noah Laphart,
1:04.3	and today how Sam Lambert took an incredible set of tools
1:08.1	and built the world's most advanced serverless MySQL platform.
1:13.8	All this and more.
1:15.1	OnCote Story.
1:19.8	Sam Lambert is originally from the UK and has lived quite a few places during his life.
1:24.8	He went to school in India, but now resides in San Francisco. He finds software
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