Matt Blewitt

@mble
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No eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no shape.

Erstwhile SRE, database person, human.

Bloghttps://matt.blwt.io/
Blueskyhttps://bsky.app/profile/matt.blwt.io

I'm hiring for my team @ planetscale.com, in AMER and EMEA, fully remote.

Come build the best Postgres product on the planet with super talented folks, very high autonomy, tier-zero databases.

Happy to talk first - https://planetscale.com/careers to apply.

Careers — PlanetScale

Building the database of the future, together.

Thursday. What a concept.

It's always been known that containers don't fully contain, but the ease with which attackers can execute container breakout attacks now, using LLM backed tooling, should prompt people to re-evaluate where they can rely on container isolation.

Some more thoughts and a concrete example here https://raesene.github.io/blog/2026/06/03/do-containers-still-contain/

Do containers still contain?

@crawshaw ephemeral? yolo? disposable?

🟪 => 🌎

After almost 8 years at Heroku, time for a new adventure PlanetScale.

Thursday. What a concept.
@lstoll Congrats! Does this now mean you are required to enforce stoßlüften?
@whitequark Live and drink, friend. It's such a unique experience.

Genuinely great paper out from Meta on Scribe, from VLDB: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p4817-karpathiotakis.pdf

It's an excellent breakdown on how to design such systems with explicit goals around write availability.