DiscoverScaling DevToolsHow PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken
How PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken

How PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken

Update: 2025-10-17
Share

Description

Ben Dicken is a developer educator at PlanetScale, he's an incredible writer and teacher, who's made some amazing technical articles that developers actually love reading. We get into his reasons for working so hard on these articles, his process, and how he makes content that genuinely helps engineers understand complex ideas.

This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thinking about selling to enterprise customers, WorkOS can help you add enterprise features like Single Sign On and audit logs.

Links:

   •  Ben's X
   •  B-trees and database indexes article
   •  IO devices and latency article

Comments 
loading
In Channel
loading
00:00
00:00
1.0x

0.5x

0.8x

1.0x

1.25x

1.5x

2.0x

3.0x

Sleep Timer

Off

End of Episode

5 Minutes

10 Minutes

15 Minutes

30 Minutes

45 Minutes

60 Minutes

120 Minutes

How PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken

How PlanetScale write content, with Ben Dicken

Jack Bridger