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Get the RSS feedCompare PlanetScale’s multi-cloud database platform for Postgres and Vitess with Amazon Aurora, one of AWS’s managed relational database services. Discover the strengths, features, and benefits of each platform to choose the best fit for your database needs. →
Compare PlanetScale’s multi-cloud database platform for Postgres and Vitess with Amazon RDS, AWS’s managed relational database service. Discover the strengths, features, and benefits of each platform to choose the best fit for your database needs. →
Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig] |
We are adding vector storage and search to MySQL, enabling you to use PlanetScale for your AI use cases. →
PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant. →
Not sure when to shard your MySQL or Postgres database? This article covers when you should consider horizontal sharding as a scaling strategy in MySQL and Postgres, and some other scaling options before then. →
Explore what to consider when deploying databases to Kubernetes, and how PlanetScale utilizes Kubernetes and Vitess to run hundreds of thousands of databases. →
Grasping when and how to shard, selecting the ideal shard keys, and managing cross-shard queries effectively can prove difficult even for seasoned engineers. Learn how to do this, and more in this tech talk. →
Learn how to use the new PlanetScale Netlify integration to simplify the process of wiring up a database to your Netlify applications. →
Learn how to build virtual relationships between tables in PlanetScale while using the Drizzle TypeScript ORM. →
Historically, there has been the belief that you cannot horizontally scale and shard MySQL, learn how Vitess has made MySQL sharding at the database layer a reality. →
Why PlanetScale deploys branch changes near-atomically, and how it applies concurrency and dependency resolution without impacting production databases. →
Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database. →
Learn how middleware technology works, the pitfalls of application-level sharding, and how Vitess enables horizontal sharding of MySQL for near infinite scale. →
Iheanyi Ekechukwu, David Graham, Ayrton |
PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely. →
How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale. →
Databases can cost your company millions if they don’t function as they should. What are the biggest pitfalls, and how can you avoid them? →
A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity. →
In this tech talk, we demo how to build your own CI/CD pipelines, where to incorporate the database, and why the database has historically been left out of CI/CD. →
Learn how to solve a tree traversal N+1 query problem in your Rails application. →
Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig] |
See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless. →
Sharding and partitioning are two common ways to improve performance, manageability, and availability of larger databases. →
This video is an introduction to the PlanetScale database platform and how it can increase developer velocity, including a demo of features, such as branching, deploy requests, and query insights. →
A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe. →
In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system. →
PlanetScale and Hightouch cover how you can make use of one of your most valuable company assets: product data. →