Blog
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. →
Databases will win based on superior developer experience not what is under the hood. →
How PlanetScale uses database branching and non-blocking schema changes to build PlanetScale. →
The relational model is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science but it has some drawbacks that need to be addressed. →
The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system the better it scales →
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. →
Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database
[Engineering]Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database →