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• Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess (Planetscale)
  Since writing this blog we have released a new version of Planet Scale. Learn more about what we’ve built and give it a try, and be sure to…
• PlanetScale migrates open source Vitess test suite from Python to Go (Planetscale)
  It’s easier than ever to contribute to Vitess. The test suite migration from Python to golang makes Vitess more developer friendly.
• Orchestrator failure detection and recovery: New Beginnings (Planetscale)
  How the new integration adds new failure detection and recovery scenarios making orchestrator’s operation goal-oriented.
• ACID Transactions are not just for banks (Planetscale)
  Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage with the redo log and binary l…
• Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 3 - Use cases (Planetscale)
  If you’re still catching up, you can find links to each article in the series at the bottom of this article.
• MySQL semi-sync replication: durability consistency and split brains (Planetscale)
  We look at some basics and follow up to present scenarios that require higher level intervention to ensure availability and to avoid split…
• Announcing Vitess 6 (Planetscale)
  I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule.
• On joining PlanetScale and the vision of open source database infrastructure (Planetscale)
  Why I joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB and what I perceive Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem.
• Announcing Vitess 7 (Planetscale)
  On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7.
• Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 2 - Rules of consensus (Planetscale)
  If you’re still catching up, you can find links to each article in the series at the bottom of this article.
• Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 1 - Introduction (Planetscale)
  This is a multi-part blog series and will be updated with links to the corresponding posts.
• Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance (Planetscale)
  Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss.
• MySQL data types: VARCHAR and CHAR (Planetscale)
  In this entry of the series we explore using VARCHAR and CHAR data types in your database and give some pointers on which type is best to u…
• Announcing PlanetScale Metal (Planetscale)
  Metal instances are powered by locally-attached NVMe SSD drives and fundamentally change the performance/cost ratio for hosting relational…
• Identifying and profiling problematic MySQL queries (Planetscale)
  MySQL has built-in functionality for collecting statistics on and profiling your MySQL queries.
• Working with Geospatial Features in MySQL (Planetscale)
  Geospatial design management is how engineers across various disciplines make sense of complex data to make more informed decisions and bet…
• Dealing with large tables (Planetscale)
  Large databases often have a small number of very large tables that makes scaling difficult.
• PlanetScale Managed is now PCI compliant (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant.
• Distributed caching systems and MySQL (Planetscale)
  Learn what distributed caching systems are, how they complement MySQL databases, and potential issues you might face when implementing them.
• Deploying multiple schema changes at once (Planetscale)
  Why PlanetScale deploys branch changes near-atomically, and how it applies concurrency and dependency resolution without impacting producti…
• Non-Blocking Schema Changes (Planetscale)
  Non-blocking schema changes let you push updates to your database without fear of blocking your databases locking individual tables or slow…
• Announcing the PlanetScale GitHub Actions (Planetscale)
  Easily integrate common PlanetScale operations directly into your GitHub Actions workflows.
• The Real Failure Rate of EBS (Planetscale)
  Planet Scale has deployed millions of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes across the world.
• Self-managed Vitess vs Managed Vitess with PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale and Vitess have a close relationship. Learn what it looks like to run Vitess on your own vs using PlanetScale.
• Guide to scaling your database: When to shard MySQL and Postgres (Planetscale)
  Not sure when to shard your MySQL or Postgres database? This article covers when you should consider horizontal sharding as a scaling strat…
• One million queries per second with MySQL (Planetscale)
  Knowing your database can scale provides great peace of mind. We built Planet Scale on top of Vitess so that we could harness its ability t…
• Preparing for MySQL 5.7 EOL (Planetscale)
  What does the MySQL 5.7 EOL means for your database? Learn considerations to upgrade 8.0 and how PlanetScale can help you upgrade with no d…
• Faster backups with sharding (Planetscale)
  Sharding a database comes with many benefits: Scalability, failure isolation, write throughput, and more.
• Deadlocks and downtime (Planetscale)
  Deadlocks happen when transactions block each other. Learn how they escalate into downtime, how to reduce them through better queries and r…
• The architecture of Neki (Planetscale)
  Neki allows applications to connect to massive, sharded databases over a single connection string.
• PlanetScale Metal: There’s no replacement for displacement (Planetscale)
  Learn how PlanetScale Metal was built and how we ensured it is safe.
• Announcing the Hightouch integration (Planetscale)
  Learn how to sync data between PlanetScale and other platforms using Hightouch.
• Introducing the PlanetScale API and OAuth applications (Planetscale)
  Manage your databases programmatically with the PlanetScale API.
• Three common MySQL database design mistakes (Planetscale)
  Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema.
• Concurrency vs. Throughput: why more parallelism can make databases slower (Planetscale)
  Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism.
• Comparing AWS’s RDS and PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  We have been blown away by the reception to our product from the developer community, but maybe even more surprising are the number of cust…
• Introducing IP restrictions (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.
• Indexing JSON in MySQL (Planetscale)
  Learn how to index JSON in MySQL with generated columns and functional indexes.
• Character sets and collations in MySQL (Planetscale)
  Understanding the differences between character sets and collations in MySQL.
• Announcing Vitess 21 — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  We're delighted to announce the release of Vitess 21 along with version 2.14.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator.
• Optimizing aggregation in the Vitess query planner (Planetscale)
  The Vitess query planner takes multiple passes over a query plan to optimize it as much as possible before execution.
• How to kill Sidekiq jobs in Ruby on Rails (Planetscale)
  Learn how PlanetScale uses a custom middleware to kill our Sidekiq jobs in production without relying on deploys.
• Announcing PlanetScale for Postgres (Planetscale)
  Update: Planet Scale for Postgres is now Generally Available. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible result…
• Building SaaS applications with PlanetScale + Netlify (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale and Netlify join forces to cover how to integrate PlanetScale into Netlify Functions for common SaaS application use cases.
• Behind the scenes: How Database Traffic Control works (Planetscale)
  Learn how Traffic Control enforces real-time limits on Postgres queries.
• Announcing Vitess 8.0 (Planetscale)
  On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 8 for MySQL.
• Deprecating the Scaler plan (Planetscale)
  Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the…
• Introducing webhooks (Planetscale)
  You can now automatically trigger HTTP callbacks on events in PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and workflows.
• Announcing Vitess 19 (Planetscale)
  We're thrilled to announce the release of Vitess 19, the latest version packed with enhancements aimed at improving the scalability, perfor…
• Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres (Planetscale)
  One of the Postgres features our customers ask us for the most is full-text search. Today, we are excited to announce TIN: a fast, full-fea…