Blog
Gain a deeper understanding of the MySQL integer types by exploring the different options (INT BIGINT MEDIUMINT etc) and how they are stored. →
A comprehensive overview of Laravel’s many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes. →
Learn how to index JSON in MySQL with generated columns and functional indexes. →
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 use and when. →
Learn what the MySQL JSON data type is when to use MySQL JSON and some caveats to using JSON documents in relational databases. →
Learn how we used TAOBench with PlanetScale to benchmark social media workloads →
Discover how PlanetScale handles one million queries per second (QPS) with horizontal sharding in MySQL →
Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale. →
Learn about the lightweight and highly collaborative process our product design team follows to ship quickly at PlanetScale. →
Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries. →
Learn how PlanetScale uses a custom middleware to kill our Sidekiq jobs in production without relying on deploys. →
Learn how PlanetScale enables databases to seamlessly fit into the DevOps lifecycle. →
Learn how to delete data in large Rails apps with destroy_async delete destroy and scheduled cron jobs. →
Handle MySQL increment counter bursts with the Slotted Counter Pattern →
Learn how we leveraged Vitess ACLs and VTTablet to build our password roles functionality →
Learn how to create a more reliable workflow with Temporal and PlanetScale →
Learn how database indexes work under the hood and how they can be used to speed up queries →
An exploration of the current landscape of schema change methodology and what the future should look like. →
Go 1.18 is here, and with it, the first release of the long-awaited implementation of Generics is finallyready for production usage. Generics are a frequently requested feature that has been highly contentiousthroughout the Go community. →
Learn why PlanetScale used NanoID to generate obscure and URL friendly identifiers. →
How to build self-healing background jobs into your application with background queueing systems like Sidekiq. →
Learn how to speed up your Laravel applications with caching. →
When implementing user authentication with passwords throw out the password rules you know. →
Learn how we use minitest and FactoryBot with parallel tests to get our Rails test suite to run in 1 minute on Buildkite. →