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By Sam Lambert |

PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.


By Elom Gomez |

PlanetScale is a co-design and launch partner for the Stripe Projects developer preview, allowing you or your coding agents to provision and manage databases and other dev tools directly from the Stripe CLI.


By Rafer Hazen |

Introducing query tagging improvements in Postgres Query Insights


By Patrick Reynolds |

Learn how Traffic Control enforces real-time limits on Postgres queries.


By Sam Lambert |

Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.


By Ben Dicken |

PgBouncer is the perfect pairing for Postgres's biggest weakness: connection management. Tuning it just right is important to make this work well, and here we cover everything you need to know


By Sam Lambert |

Drizzle joins PlanetScale.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.


By Simeon Griggs |

Build a real-time application with PlanetScale and the Cloudflare global network. Infrastructure choices you won't need to migrate away from once you hit scale.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools directly to your PlanetScale database to optimize schemas, debug queries, and monitor app performance.


By Ben Dicken |

What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?


By Mike Coutermarsh |

How PlanetScale uses Cursor commands to automate our changelog entries


By Chris Sinjakli |

Postgres 18 is now available on PlanetScale


By Ben Dicken |

Using MotherDuck with PlanetScale


By Richard Crowley |

We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.


By Rafer Hazen |

Introducing AI-powered index suggestions for PostgreSQL


By Sam Lambert |

You can now create single node Postgres databases on PlanetScale starting at just $5.


By Vitess Engineering Team |

Vitess 23 is now generally available


By Sam Lambert |

Introducing $50 PlanetScale Metal


By Richard Crowley |

On 2025-10-20, there was an incident that affected PlanetScale, initially caused by DNS misconfiguration in one of PlanetScale’s service providers, followed by several hours of capacity constraints and network instability.


By Sam Lambert |

Introducing the $5 PlanetScale plan.


By Ben Dicken |

Postgres 18 brings a significant improvement to read performance via async I/O and I/O worker threads. Here we compare its performance to Postgres 17.


By Vicent Martí |

A new hybrid design for scalable vector indexes and a reference implementation in MySQL


By Mike Coutermarsh |

You can now easily set up PlanetScale databases with Cloudflare Workers using this native integration.


By Ben Dicken |

Processes and threads are fundamental abstrations for operating systems. Learn how they work and how they impact database performance in this interactive article.