Creating the GitHub of databases, with Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale

The Sourcegraph Podcast

Episode | Podcast

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:00:00 -0800

<p>Why is using PlanetScale a mind-altering experience? In this episode, Sugu Sougoumarane, co-founder and CTO of PlanetScale, shares how one email got him a second job interview with Elon Musk, tells the story of how he became one of the elite engineers at Paypal by solving the company’s most painful process, and explains why database administrators are shifting from managing machines to managing fleets of machines. Along the way, Sougoumarane explains why so many developers have told him they’ve felt like they’ve waited their whole lives for self-serve schema deployment.<br /><br />Show notes &amp; transcript: https://about.sourcegraph.com/podcast/sugu-sougoumarane/<br /><br />Sourcegraph: about.sourcegraph.com</p>