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Sam Lambert
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Sam Lambert
PlanetScale
@samlambert
CEO @PlanetScale. former serf. making more mistakes than you.
San Francisco, California
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Joined October 2008
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Sep 24, 2025
    trying to ship anything at a large company
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Aug 22, 2025
    Replying to @hopes_revenge
    in china they just call it food
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    May 24, 2022
    My brother is 34 and doesn't know what Slack is. Can you imagine that level of mental freedom? Incredible.
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Oct 18, 2025
    Until ~2015, GitHub Pages hosted over 2 million websites on 2 servers with a multi-million-line nginx.conf, edited and reloaded per deploy. This worked incredibly well, with github.io ranking as the 140th most visited domain on the web at the time.
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Sep 27, 2025
    now we wait
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Dec 30, 2023
    When someone opens an issue on your project.
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Aug 22, 2025
    engineers instead of optimizing their code
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Oct 8, 2025
    This is what Oracle took from us.
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Jul 31, 2025
    back in my day this was our vercel
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Oct 21, 2025
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Aug 27, 2025
    trump puts a tariff on joins
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Oct 20, 2025
    this is likely the first report of the issue
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    Nathan Broadbent
    @ndbroadbent
    Oct 20, 2025
    something weird is happening to dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com maybe it's just my machine somehow but there's no DNS record anymore on Google or Cloudflare
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Jun 13, 2025
    blame vs accountability
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Mar 8, 2023
    If your backend engineer uses an iPhone ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ
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    Sam Lambert
    PlanetScale
    @samlambert
    Mar 8, 2023
    If your designer has an android phone ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ๐Ÿšฉ
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