I've been working with the team at Not Diamond and trying out the private beta for a couple of weeks, and the routing experience is great. It makes it really easy to use different models and also route based on different tradeoffs. All I had to do was grab API keys from the different LLM APIs and quickly set it up.
I totally agree. If anyone has tried to hire a technical product marketer who "gets it," they will understand there is a really small group of people who have the technical understanding and ability to communicate beyond "X is the best platform." Sometimes early stage companies think their engineers will be able to do it, but often it is not true. They need someone who both sees the internal AND external view of things.
We are hearing from some users that the performance with Lambda is really good with the new driver. We are going to do some comparisons soon to see if there is more worth sharing on it too. We are going to do a Twitch stream adding it to a Lambda on Tuesday at 11am CT if you are interested. https://www.twitch.tv/planetscale
They still require external connections to be made over HTTP and not other networking protocols. This is part of why this new driver is useful. Before today, it would have been impossible to use PlanetScale directly from a worker without it.
Agreed, it's a whole new git based workflow. When I was doing full stack applications 10 years ago, it looked similar in some ways, but it was a lot different to me. I also had to care much more about servers. CDN caching is just one feature.
I'm less worried about 3.1 as I was with 3.0. It took years (like more than three) for the move from 2 to 3, and still there's a couple of popular tools that still haven't fully supported 3.0 yet.
Yes! And this is why I wrote the piece. There will always be developer and engineers writing documentation for projects, why not help them be better at it?
Author here. I did mention part of this in the blog post:
> The study also found some alternative scanning patterns such as layer-cake pattern, spotted pattern, marking pattern, bypassing pattern, and commitment pattern.