Will Madden
Engineering leader involved with Prisma, discussing the design and roadmap for Prisma Next, including migration from Rust, WebAssembly delivery, extensibility, and database support.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 36min
Prisma Next with Will Madden
Will Madden, an engineering leader on Prisma, explains Prisma Next and the plan to move the core to WebAssembly and TypeScript. They cover migration away from Rust, support for Postgres and upcoming Mongo, extensibility via plugins like PG Vector, and new patterns like collection methods, composable scopes, query linting, and performance guardrails.
Nov 20, 2025 • 24min
First look at Prisma ORM v7 with Will Madden
Will Madden, Senior Engineering Manager for the Prisma ORM team, shares insights into Prisma v7's exciting evolution. He discusses the significant shift from Rust to TypeScript, enhancing performance and predictability with less 'magic' involved. Will dives into improvements in Prisma Studio, better compatibility with serverless environments, and how JavaScript ORM tools will shape future coding workflows aided by language models. Don’t miss his perspective on how these changes lay the foundation for an adaptable, developer-friendly ORM.
