Blog
By Holly Guevara |
You can now use the vector data type for vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database. →
By Shlomi Noach |
PlanetScale now supports instant DDL. Where eligible, you can run deploy requests that complete near-instantly. →
By Holly Guevara |
PlanetScale and Vitess have a close relationship. Learn what it looks like to run Vitess on your own vs using PlanetScale. We cover cost, time to implement, management, and more. →
By Matt Robenolt, Iheanyi Ekechukwu |
With global replica credentials, you can now automatically route reads to the closest replica. →
By Taylor Barnett, Rafer Hazen |
Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic. →
By Taylor Barnett |
You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application. →
By Rick Branson |
Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network. →
By Matt Robenolt |
How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out. →
By Rafer Hazen |
This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database. →
By Taylor Barnett, Katie Sipos |
Learn how you can extract, load, and transform your PlanetScale data with Fivetran. →
By Taylor Barnett, Mike Coutermarsh |
You can now automatically trigger HTTP callbacks on events in PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and workflows. →
By Frances Thai |
Bringing weekly reports of the most important parts of your database, straight to your inbox. →
By Liz van Dijk |
Grasping when and how to shard, selecting the ideal shard keys, and managing cross-shard queries effectively can prove difficult even for seasoned engineers. Learn how to do this, and more in this tech talk. →
By Taylor Barnett |
Learn how to use the new PlanetScale Netlify integration to simplify the process of wiring up a database to your Netlify applications. →
By Iheanyi Ekechukwu, David Graham, Ayrton |
PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely. →
By Sam Lambert |
Databases can cost your company millions if they don’t function as they should. What are the biggest pitfalls, and how can you avoid them? →
By Rick Branson |
Dive into the complexities of database caching, covering materialized views, cache invalidation, and other techniques with a special demo of the new and exciting caching technology behind PlanetScale Boost. →
By Justin Gage |
A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
In this tech talk, we demo how to build your own CI/CD pipelines, where to incorporate the database, and why the database has historically been left out of CI/CD. →
By Taylor Barnett |
This video is an introduction to the PlanetScale database platform and how it can increase developer velocity, including a demo of features, such as branching, deploy requests, and query insights. →