Planetscale is really being pushed on this site lately but all I see is theory and promises of doing things different for vague reasons. I hope I'm wrong or just not understanding something but it feels like a CEO trying to sell a product without understanding the technical reasons why a project like this hasn't existed before. I can't imagine that planetscale is going to solve something that Google, amazon, Facebook, apple, and Netflix all failed to solve for a similar use case and for well documented reasons.
I thought the common denominator for this was (and has been, for decades) ETL? Extract, Transform, Load and in that order, because what other order would make sense?<p>Getting such basic things wrong doesn’t exactly give the reader the impression that the writer knows the subject particularly well.
Step 1: write an open-source connector for an open-source ELT tool<p>Step 2: paywall customers’ access to their own data so you can brand it as a premium feature/product<p>Step 3: ???<p>Step 4: profit