It's more like rds but it has far better developer experience than rds with dashboards and better migration. Their unique offering is their metal offering which uses local SSD for superior performance https://planetscale.com/metal
How is the pricing like? Unfortunately I can't go past 1500GB for storage on their pricing calculator. We have tons of data and I don't feel like scheduling a sales call just to estimate cost
Their dashboards and metrics are really good. Plus the performance is great even on their non-metal offering too. I hope to one day be able to justify the upgrade to it.
Here's their announcement blog post with a bit more info, like their benchmarks:
Possibly silly question, and not specific to this DB offering, but why is it a good decision to connect to your DB over the Internet vs keeping it in the same data center as your db clients, given the network-latency based performance hit I believe it causes?
Sadly, I'm not surprised (looks like the site was written twenty years ago). It must be one of those "roulette" ones, because I have not encountered it (or Safari kills it), but it does have that stupid region popup.
Could be a million things you subconsciously notice.
* the warning signage
* things that are related to the lead shielding (micro changes in gravity, smell of lead salts, ...)
* infrasound caused by the machinery
* people waiting for an x-ray around who are less-than-happy...
The problem with this kind of thing is that it is often highly individual, and barely, if all measurable with our current scientific instruments. Some people keep claiming that humans are incapable of even hearing infrasound, or sense gravity, claiming anyone who can sense them is spreading new-age esoteric nonsense or is mentally ill. See also: Electrosensitivity.
I'm not saying these things do or do not exist, just that it is in the realm of possibility.
I wouldn't worry much as an X-ray recipient. There was talk in the 1950s about the trade off of getting a routine chest X-ray, say to check if you have pneumonia if you see your doc about a respiratory infection, vs a hypothetical risk of cancer.
so I wouldn't be afraid to get one. The radiology technician though needs to take special precautions because they are around it all day. Personally I would avoid a CAT scan if it were feasible
The mandatory shielding around these rooms is robust. I shadowed a technician inspecting a newly fitted x-ray room and observed the very sensitive equipment used to verify absence of leakage. There was a small puncture in the lead shielding that was quickly found and resulted in a delay until patched.
I don't know what you mean by "around" but if you mean walking down the hallway outside the x-ray room, my guess it's the low frequency sound these machines often produce that you're reacting to and not x-rays themselves. Not to mention the almost sci-fi signage alerting your brain to danger.
And inside the shielding envelope, modern x-ray equipment is still at very low levels unless you're the patient (and even as the patient, imaging requires much lower levels than in the past).
Nah, energy is way too low. If they emitted enough for you to feel it you'd be dead in a week.
I certainly felt my last MRI though. New machine, so probably high powered. Abdominal/liver MRI. Every time the RF was on I could feel a gentle warmth throughout my midsection. Weird but cool.
Humans cannot feel x-rays in the dosages you'd experience in an x-ray room. A sufficiently powerful x-ray would feel hot the same way a bright light does.
