PlanetScale Metal By Richard Crowley 2025 -03-11 and 2025 -12-15 Exactly one week after I began working at PlanetScale, I pitched the CEO on what he’d soon name PlanetScale Metal . The pitch was simple: What if we ran Vitess the way I ran it at Slack, with fast, local SSD storage, instead of the slow way, using EBS? That pitch bought me the space to develop a prototype and some spreadsheets…