Iheanyi Ekechukwu
@iheanyi.com
🇳🇬, computer dude, hip-hop lover. software eng @planetscale.com. previously at GitHub, DigitalOcean, and IBM Watson.
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PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
July 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PlanetScale now supports Postgres.
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Showing tabular data in a dropdown. @planetscale.com cluster size menu w/ dozens of SKUs
July 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Showing tabular data in a dropdown. @planetscale.com cluster size menu w/ dozens of SKUs
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Trying to share more @planetscale.com UI design work. This is the database infrastructure diagram comparing a simple Postgres cluster and a more complex Vitess/MySQL cluster with multiple shards.
July 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Trying to share more @planetscale.com UI design work. This is the database infrastructure diagram comparing a simple Postgres cluster and a more complex Vitess/MySQL cluster with multiple shards.
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Meanwhile, over on X:
July 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Meanwhile, over on X:
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⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
March 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
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Based on price, performance, and (ahem) reliability, I’m really puzzled as to who’d pick Aurora over PlanetScale. Am I missing something obvious?
⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP
March 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Based on price, performance, and (ahem) reliability, I’m really puzzled as to who’d pick Aurora over PlanetScale. Am I missing something obvious?
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The Trump administration began firing several hundred FAA employees just *weeks* after a fatal crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Trump Begins Firing FAA Air Traffic Control Staff Weeks After Fatal DC Plane Crash
One FAA employee suggested he was targeted over his criticism of Tesla and X. Both are owned by Elon Musk.
www.huffpost.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The Trump administration began firing several hundred FAA employees just *weeks* after a fatal crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
Gonna feel good coming back from vacation without Slack or my laptop, lol. I finally forgot about work for once, feels good.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Gonna feel good coming back from vacation without Slack or my laptop, lol. I finally forgot about work for once, feels good.
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It's now easier than ever to get notified of events of your newsletter in your Discord server. This is great for notifying your servers' members of new emails :)
December 4, 2024 at 10:37 PM
It's now easier than ever to get notified of events of your newsletter in your Discord server. This is great for notifying your servers' members of new emails :)
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the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
December 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM
the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment
Exact same daily driver over here. I even asked Jason for his colorscheme, lolol.
My daily driver
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
November 26, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Exact same daily driver over here. I even asked Jason for his colorscheme, lolol.
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My daily driver
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
November 26, 2024 at 1:24 PM
My daily driver
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
» Ghostty
» tmux
» Neovim
» Lazyvim
» Berkeley Mono font
I have custom terminal, tmux, and Neovim color schemes based on the Poimandres VSCode theme.
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The revolution will not be televised because the way we are moving right now, the revolution will not happen.
November 25, 2024 at 3:40 PM
The revolution will not be televised because the way we are moving right now, the revolution will not happen.
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lmfao i just found this tweet searching you know what
November 26, 2024 at 1:45 PM
lmfao i just found this tweet searching you know what
This dude is a menace 😭😭😭😭😭
lmfao i just found this tweet searching you know what
November 26, 2024 at 4:05 PM
This dude is a menace 😭😭😭😭😭
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i think Drake’s only option at this point is try to appeal to Liz Cheney
November 26, 2024 at 2:37 AM
i think Drake’s only option at this point is try to appeal to Liz Cheney
My desire to post on socials is fading as I have nothing I care to say 😩
November 21, 2024 at 1:53 PM
My desire to post on socials is fading as I have nothing I care to say 😩
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The old way: migrating our largest MySQL table takes 70-80 days and can contribute to occasional latency spikes.
The new way on PlanetScale: migrating our largest MySQL table takes less than a week and Just Works.
The new way on PlanetScale: migrating our largest MySQL table takes less than a week and Just Works.
November 20, 2024 at 11:57 AM
The old way: migrating our largest MySQL table takes 70-80 days and can contribute to occasional latency spikes.
The new way on PlanetScale: migrating our largest MySQL table takes less than a week and Just Works.
The new way on PlanetScale: migrating our largest MySQL table takes less than a week and Just Works.
Aight, I've changed my mind. Momentum has shifted, Bluesky might be where it's at.
November 17, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Aight, I've changed my mind. Momentum has shifted, Bluesky might be where it's at.
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Damn, Bluesky is really picking up huh?
November 16, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Damn, Bluesky is really picking up huh?
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November 14, 2024 at 11:15 AM
This new Tyler the Creator album is so good man, I'm loving it.
October 28, 2024 at 10:32 PM
This new Tyler the Creator album is so good man, I'm loving it.
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Today was my last post on Twitter. I'll be using this account going forward while I contemplate the value of social media in my daily life.
October 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM
Today was my last post on Twitter. I'll be using this account going forward while I contemplate the value of social media in my daily life.