Sam Lambert
AngelCEO of PlanetScale. Previously VP of Engineering at GitHub. Angel investor in developer tools.
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2 companiesFly.io is a developer-focused public cloud platform that runs full-stack applications and databases close to end users using Firecracker micro-VMs. The platform distributes containerized apps to servers across 30+ regions worldwide, providing low-latency performance without the complexity of traditional multi-region deployments.
PlanetScale is a serverless database platform built on Vitess, the open-source database clustering system originally created to scale YouTube. The platform provides horizontally scalable MySQL and PostgreSQL databases with database branching, non-blocking schema changes, and sharding without downtime.
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