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Postgres on bare metal with the CEO of Prisma
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Prisma started as a GraphQL backend and pivoted into one of the most widely used ORMs in the world. Now, they’ve launched Prisma Postgres, and CEO Søren Bramer Schmidt is here to break down the journey, the challenges, and the massive technical innovations behind it—including bare-metal servers, Firecracker microVMs, and unikernels. If you care about databases, performance, or scaling, this one’s for you.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:15 - The Origins of Prisma: From GraphQL to ORM
02:55 - Why Firebase & Parse Inspired Prisma
04:04 - The Pivot: From GraphQL to Prisma ORM
06:00 - Why They Abandoned Backend-as-a-Service
08:07 - The Open Source Business Model Debate
10:15 - The Challenges of Monetizing an ORM
12:42 - Building Prisma Accelerate & Pulse
14:55 - How Prisma Accelerate Optimizes Database Access
17:00 - Real-Time Database Updates with Prisma Pulse
20:03 - How Prisma Pulse Handles Change Data Capture (CDC)
23:15 - Users Wanted a Hosted Database (Even When Prisma Didn’t)
25:40 - Why Prisma Finally Launched Prisma Postgres
27:32 - Unikernels, Firecracker MicroVMs & Running Millions of Databases
31:10 - Bare Metal Servers vs. AWS: The Controversial Choice
34:40 - How Prisma Routes Queries for Low Latency
38:02 - Scaling, Cost Efficiency & Performance Benefits
42:10 - The Prisma Postgres Roadmap & Future Features
45:30 - Why Prisma is Competing with AWS & The Big Cloud Players
48:05 - Final Thoughts & Where to Learn More
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