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By Brian Morrison II |

Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.


By Deepthi Sigireddi |

Learn how middleware technology works, the pitfalls of application-level sharding, and how Vitess enables horizontal sharding of MySQL for near infinite scale.


By Iheanyi Ekechukwu, David Graham, Ayrton |

PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.


By Rafer Hazen |

How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale.


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 Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn how to solve a tree traversal N+1 query problem in your Rails application.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

See how Scaler Pro combines the best of our current plans for companies of all sizes while enabling you to grow with the best database for serverless.


By PlanetScale |

Sharding and partitioning are two common ways to improve performance, manageability, and availability of larger databases.


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.


By Sam Lambert |

A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe.


By Matt Lord |

In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system.


By Brian Morrison II |

PlanetScale and Hightouch cover how you can make use of one of your most valuable company assets: product data.


By Aaron Francis |

Learn the differences between datetimes and timestamps in MySQL, the DATE, YEAR, and TIME columns, timezones, and when to use each.


By Aaron Francis |

Creating generated hash columns in MySQL for faster strict equality lookups.


By Matthieu Napoli |

Learn how to integrate PlanetScale with Node applications built using the Serverless Framework on AWS.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

PlanetScale has deepened its relationship with AWS to benefit customers who use AWS services, officially joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Program!


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to sync data between PlanetScale and other platforms using Hightouch.


By Aaron Francis |

Using redundant conditions as a method to unlock obfuscated indexes and improve performance in MySQL.


By Andres Taylor |

See how Vitess acts as a database proxy that creates an illusion of a single database when technically, the query is sent to multiple MySQL instances.


By Holly Guevara |

Learn about the latest updates we made to our database overview page: load balancers, shards, and more.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

Explore the evolution of “Database DevOps” and its impact on development workflows in this tech talk.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

We’re excited to announce that PlanetScale is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace.