Blog

By Jason Long | February 23, 2022

We’re sharing the PlanetScale-powered communication tool we use internally. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | February 17, 2022

How to build self-healing background jobs into your application with background queueing systems like Sidekiq. →

By Holly Guevara | February 9, 2022

Learn how to speed up your Laravel applications with caching. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | January 24, 2022

When implementing user authentication with passwords throw out the password rules you know. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | January 18, 2022

Learn how we use minitest and FactoryBot with parallel tests to get our Rails test suite to run in 1 minute on Buildkite. →

By Justin Gage | August 27, 2021

Databases will win based on superior developer experience not what is under the hood. →

By Iheanyi Ekechukwu | August 18, 2021

How PlanetScale uses database branching and non-blocking schema changes to build PlanetScale. →

By Shlomi Noach | July 13, 2021

The relational model is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science but it has some drawbacks that need to be addressed. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | October 4, 2020

The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system the better it scales →

By Shlomi Noach | October 2, 2020

We look at some basics and follow up to present scenarios that require higher level intervention to ensure availability and to avoid split brains from taking place. →

By Jiten Vaidya | August 14, 2020

Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database →