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What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate


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Lately I have been observing the constant picking of Neon, mainly I presume for its performance from Planetscale’s CEO, and the X/Twitter community. This post is going to be extremely short, and it was just something that struck me when I read this phrase from Project Hail Mary, when Stratt, Grace and Redell had a discussion around growing Astrophage at scale: I know negativity and drama in X/Twitter brings the eyeballs, but its a friendly reminder to my fellow engineers that there is no universal optimal solution.

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