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• MySQL for application developers (Planetscale)
  Everything you need to know about MySQL as an application developer, with a focus on improving query performance.
• Introducing PlanetScale Insights: Advanced query monitoring (Planetscale)
  If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of debugging slow or costly queries, we’ve got a treat for you.
• Introducing Neki (Planetscale)
  Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
• Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 5 - Handling races (Planetscale)
  In part 5 of our consensus algorithms series we discuss how we handle race conditions and forward progress requirements.
• Horizontal sharding for MySQL made easy (Planetscale)
  Historically, there has been the belief that you cannot horizontally scale and shard MySQL, learn how Vitess has made MySQL sharding at the…
• When to choose x86-64 vs aarch64 (Planetscale)
  ARM and x86 can give you different performance at the same vCPU count. Here's what differs, what to measure, and how to choose.
• Summer 2023: Fuzzing Vitess at PlanetScale — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  My experience working as an intern in the Vitess query serving team for PlanetScale.
• Introducing Insights Anomalies (Planetscale)
  This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database.
• Scaling hundreds of thousands of database clusters on Kubernetes (Planetscale)
  Explore what to consider when deploying databases to Kubernetes, and how PlanetScale utilizes Kubernetes and Vitess to run hundreds of thou…
• The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints (Planetscale)
  Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we…
• Patterns for Postgres Traffic Control (Planetscale)
  Last week we introduced Database Traffic Control™. Traffic Control lets you attach resource budgets to slices of your Postgres traffic, lik…
• Considerations for building a database disaster recovery plan (Planetscale)
  Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits.
• What is a data topology? — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  A data topology describes the sharding scheme a Neki router uses to map logical PostgreSQL tables to physical shards and route queries.
• Improvements to database branch pages (Planetscale)
  Learn about some of the latest enhancements we made to the Branching page in the PlanetScale dashboard.
• Identifying slow Rails queries with sqlcommenter (Planetscale)
  In a large Rails application, it can be tricky to track down where a slow query is coming from in the app.
• Zero downtime Laravel migrations (Planetscale)
  Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale.
• Safely dropping MySQL tables (Planetscale)
  Learn how to safely drop tables in MySQL by checking if the table is still in use and how PlanetScale makes this process much easier.
• Consensus algorithms at scale: Part 7 - Propagating requests (Planetscale)
  If you’re still catching up, you can find links to each article in the series at the bottom of this article.
• Migrating from Postgres to MySQL (Planetscale)
  Learn how to migrate from Postgres to MySQL, Postgres vs MySQL incompatibilities, and more.
• What's new in Postgres 19 (Planetscale)
  `VACUUM` reclaims dead-tuple space but doesn't shrink a table. PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 adds an in-core online rewrite with REPACK (CONCURRENTL…
• Faster MySQL with HTTP/3 (Planetscale)
  Over here at Planet Scale, we offer you a MySQL database. As a part of this offering, it is critical that we offer you a MySQL protocol-com…
• Announcing Vitess 15 (Planetscale)
  Vitess 15 is now generally available with updates to VTOrc, VTAdmin, MySQL compatibility, and more.
• Scaling Postgres connections with PgBouncer (Planetscale)
  PgBouncer is the perfect pairing for Postgres's biggest weakness: connection management.
• MySQL High Availability: Connection handling and concurrency (Planetscale)
  Deep dive into MySQL’s connection handling mechanisms for optimal connection pooling and improved concurrency.
• Increase IOPS and throughput with sharding (Planetscale)
  For big databases, IOPS and throughput can become a bottleneck in database performance. Learn how sharding helps scale out IOPS and through…
• Common MySQL errors and how to fix them (Planetscale)
  An overview of some common MySQL error codes you may run into, what they mean, and how to solve them.
• Processes and Threads (Planetscale)
  Processes and threads are fundamental abstrations for operating systems. Learn how they work and how they impact database performance in th…
• The Slotted Counter Pattern (Planetscale)
  It is a common database pattern to increment an INT column when an event happens, such as a download or page view.
• Drizzle joins PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  I am excited to announce that the Drizzle team is joining Planet Scale to continue their mission of building the best database tools for Ja…
• Massively parallel Postgres backups (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.
• $50 PlanetScale Metal — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  Note $50 Metal databases are now available. Learn more We’re making Metal's performance more accessible with a new entry point: $50/month.
• Temporal Workflows at scale with PlanetScale: Part 1 (Planetscale)
  As more services shift towards the cloud, many organizations seek microservices to streamline development, improve reliability, and acceler…
• Announcing Teams: An easier way to manage database administrator access (Planetscale)
  When it comes to something as important as database access, we believe you should have all of the tools necessary to control who and what c…
• PlanetScale vs Amazon Aurora replication (Planetscale)
  Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale.
• See what your database is doing right now with Connections (Planetscale)
  Connections lets you monitor and manage all active connections to Postgres and Vitess databases.
• Sharding for cost-effective database management (Planetscale)
  Maximizing performance while minimizing costs is integral for engineering large-scale applications with massive data volumes.
• Introducing database reports (Planetscale)
  Bringing weekly reports of the most important parts of your database, straight to your inbox.
• The feedback loops behind Kubernetes (Planetscale)
  Kubernetes is a framework for feedback controllers: write down what you want, observe what exists, make the next change, and repeat.
• How PlanetScale prevents MySQL downtime (Planetscale)
  Learn how PlanetScale protects against downtime due to human error system immaturity and app issues.
• Larger than RAM Vector Indexes for Relational Databases (Planetscale)
  With the advent of modern embedding models, capable of distilling the key traits of arbitrary data (including text, images and audio) into…
• Why isn’t MySQL using my index? (Planetscale)
  There are several reasons why MySQL might not consider your index, and in this article we’ll explore some of the most common ones.
• Introducing FastPage: Faster offset pagination for Rails apps (Planetscale)
  Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries.
• The MySQL adaptive hash index (Planetscale)
  If you're using MySQL, you likely have indexes that are powered by B-trees. The B-tree is a powerful data structure, and is frequently used…
• What makes up a PlanetScale Vitess database? (Planetscale)
  Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.
• Serverless finally has a database (Planetscale)
  The dream behind PlanetScale is to serve the modern application developer’s needs as well as something like GitHub does for code.
• AI-Powered Postgres index suggestions (Planetscale)
  This feature monitors your database workload and periodically suggests new indexes to improve query execution speed and overall database pe…
• $5 PlanetScale — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  Note $5 Planet Scale Postgres databases are now generally available. Planet Scale is synonymous with quality, performance, and reliability.
• Datetimes versus timestamps in MySQL (Planetscale)
  Learn the differences between datetimes and timestamps in MySQL, the DATE, YEAR, and TIME columns, timezones, and when to use each.
• New PlanetScale pricing: Scaler plan upgrades and our new enterprise plan (Planetscale)
  In May of this year, we launched Planet Scale, the database for developers, to easily use developer workflows on top of Vitess, the databas…
• The MySQL JSON data type (Planetscale)
  Learn what the MySQL JSON data type is when to use MySQL JSON and some caveats to using JSON documents in relational databases.