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		arandomhuman 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA so it's a "bare metal" virtual machine? Or are they actually using the bare metal offerings for the cloud provider?

bddicken 3 months ago [–]

Still in virtual machines, but ones with local NVMe drives rather than network-attached storage (EBS, Persistent Disk). This means incredible I/O performance.

https://planetscale.com/blog/benchmarking-postgres

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