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Database Traffic Control (planetscale.com)
2026-06-30 Tue | 32 points by religio | original
[−]dukepiki · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:22 UTC · link
Hi, I'm the lead engineer for Traffic Control. Glad to see it back in the news! If anyone's interested in more detail about how it works, check out https://planetscale.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-how-traffic-c..., or I'm happy to answer questions here.
[−]superboum · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:56 UTC · link
Deceptive query plans (eg. due to very specific write shapes), lack of QoS classes (to priorize OLTP requests over OLAP ones without spawning a read replica), manual partitioning that is way too manual, lack of backpressure during replication (WAL accumulate and Postgres continues accepting writes) and lack of first-class leader-election mechanism (eg. something like what sorintlab/stolon does) are my top 5 issues with PostgreSQL. Glad to see that one of my 5 pain point (that I call "QoS classes") is shared and addressed, I'm sure on-call engineers will thank you, this work addresses real operating issues.