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By Vitess Engineering Team |

Vitess 19 is now generally available.


By Sam Lambert |

PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.


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, Rick Branson |

You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database.


By Brian Morrison II |

Amazon Aurora is pitched as a straightforward and scalable database service on AWS, but there are associated costs that you might not be aware of.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema.


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 Nick Van Wiggeren |

Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the Scaler plan.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn the key differences between Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments and PlanetScale branching.


By Rick Branson |

Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits.


By Savannah Longoria |

In this blog post, we explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

The Vantage + PlanetScale integration is now available.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database.


By Shlomi Noach |

We are releasing schemadiff, an open source command line tool to generate diffs between two MySQL databases.


By Matt Robenolt |

How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out.


By Taylor Barnett |

You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases.


By Shlomi Noach, Manan Gupta |

Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.


By Savannah Longoria |

Learn what HTAP is, how HTAP compares to OLAP and OLTP, and some pros and cons of HTAP.


By Rafer Hazen |

This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn what went into building PlanetScale webhooks from a security perspective. This article covers SSRF, webhook validation, DDoS, and more.


By Brian Morrison II |

There is more to sharding than simply increasing data throughput. In this article, we explore three different benefits of sharding your database.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn the best practices for configuring MySQL replication, and how to ensure your data is always available.


By Ayrton |

Learn how to build HTML emails using Rails and Tailwind CSS. We also cover how to overcome some common obstacles such as Gmail message clipping, large file size, Apple autolinking, and more.