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Building PlanetScale from Scratch: Infrastructure Lessons
A developer documents their attempt to recreate PlanetScale's infrastructure from scratch, covering database clustering and scaling. The project explores open-source alternatives to Vitess and Kubernetes. It offers practical insights for engineers building distributed systems.
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While ambitious, this hobby project highlights the complexity of production database infrastructure that most startups take for granted.
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