It's been four years since I joined PlanetScale. It's also the longest I worked for a company (second is DigitalOcean). I still can't believe how time

Four years at PlanetScale

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2025-01-20 16:00:03

It's been four years since I joined PlanetScale. It's also the longest I worked for a company (second is DigitalOcean). I still can't believe how time flies since I accepted the offer to join PlanetScale.

I haven’t shared any of the projects I’ve worked on so far during this period. My LinkedIn profile is essentially empty, and I received over the past years quite a bit questions about my work and responsibilities. In the past I would share a lot about some of my open source projects, but since 2018 I also stopped doing significant work on that area. So I thought now is the best time to reflect that. Second, I must admit I'm pretty bad at remembering what I did in the past, unless I write it down. So it's a convenient excuse for me and share some my past experiences.

Before I start, let me short explain what PlanetScale is and what we do. We offer an extremely, horizontally scalable MySQL database. Straight from our homepage: