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Rafer Hazen

Introducing query tagging improvements in Postgres Query Insights


Patrick Reynolds

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


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

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


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

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


Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig]

Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.


Simeon Griggs [@simeonGriggs]

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.


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

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


Chris Sinjakli

Postgres 18 is now available on PlanetScale


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

Using MotherDuck with PlanetScale


Richard Crowley

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


Rafer Hazen

Introducing AI-powered index suggestions for PostgreSQL


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

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


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

Introducing the $5 PlanetScale plan.


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

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.


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

Why a lagging client can stall or break failover, and how MySQL’s GTID model avoids it.


Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig], Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

PlanetScale now supports Postgres


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

Benchmarking Postgres in a transparent, standardized and fair way is challenging. Here, we look at the process of how we did it in-depth


Jonah Berquist

Not sure when to shard your MySQL or Postgres database? This article covers when you should consider horizontal sharding as a scaling strategy in MySQL and Postgres, and some other scaling options before then.


Adnan Kukic

Learn how to migrate from Postgres to MySQL, Postgres vs MySQL incompatibilities, and more.