Neki, sharded Postgres, is now available. Get started
Navigation

Blog

Get the RSS feed

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.


Vitess Engineering Team

Vitess 23 is now generally available


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

Introducing $50 PlanetScale Metal


Richard Crowley

On 2025-10-20, there was an incident that affected PlanetScale, initially caused by DNS misconfiguration in one of PlanetScale’s service providers, followed by several hours of capacity constraints and network instability.


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.


Vicent Martí

A new hybrid design for scalable vector indexes and a reference implementation in MySQL


Mike Coutermarsh

You can now easily set up PlanetScale databases with Cloudflare Workers using this native integration.


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

Processes and threads are fundamental abstrations for operating systems. Learn how they work and how they impact database performance in this interactive article.


Sam Lambert [@samlambert]

PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.


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


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

Every time you use a computer, the cache is working to ensure your experience is fast.


Max Englander

The principles and processes we follow for fault tolerance.


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


Vitess Engineering Team

Vitess 22 is now generally available


Patrick Reynolds

You can now use vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.


Vicent Martí

A novel technique for implementing dynamic language interpreters in Go, applied to the Vitess SQL evaluation engine


Nick Van Wiggeren [@NickVanWig]

Our experience running AWS EBS at scale for critical workloads


Ben Dicken [@BenjDicken]

Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.


Rafer Hazen

Our experience upgrading the Query Insights database to PlanetScale Metal