Today we have Søren from Prisma on the show. Prisma has been the most popular ORM in the TypeScript world for a while, and now they’re moving more into hosted infrastructure.

We spend a lot of time talking about their new offering called Prisma Postgres, which is this unikernel-based Postgres offering. It’s a really unique offering from both a technical and a product perspective.

On the technical side, they’re doing some interesting work compared to other Postgres providers. They’re running on bare metal in a colocation facility rather than the default public clouds like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Further, they’re using unikernels in a Firecracker VM, giving them unique startup and security characteristics.

These technical decisions give them unique economics compared to standard providers, so they’re able to have a generous free tier and a unique billing model that works great for serverless applications with spiky workloads.

Around all of this, it’s very interesting to see a company with such a unique spread of products — a popular, mature open-source library paired with a mission-critical infrastructure service offering. We talked about the difficulties in building a company that accommodates these two very different products.

Timestamps

01:51 Start

06:08 Prisma Postgres

09:10 Accelerate

11:39 Why Postgres

17:32 How Prisma Postgres Works

21:32 Colocation Facility

22:05 Unikernels

27:56 CoLo vs Public Cloud

29:11 Building the team

31:46 Missing Features that are being worked on

32:31 Use Cases

33:37 Colo Locations

34:53 Cloudflare

35:42 Biggest surprises since release

37:34 More Unikernel adoption?

39:08 Supporting Prisma ORM

46:43 Mongo

47:51 Life as A CEO

53:04 MCP

57:23 Søren Questions Alex

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