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Get the RSS feedStripe Projects partnership: Provision PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases from the Stripe CLI
[Product]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 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 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 Richard Crowley |
We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios. →
By Sam Lambert |
You can now create single node Postgres databases on PlanetScale starting at just $5. →
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 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. →