Blog

By Adnan Kukic | February 9, 2023

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

By Frances Thai, Taylor Barnett | January 31, 2023

Manage your databases programmatically with the PlanetScale API. →

By Mary Gathoni | January 27, 2023

An overview of some common MySQL error codes you may run into what they mean and how to solve them. →

By Jonah Berquist | January 26, 2023

Learn about sharding, connection pooling, and more from PlanetScale Technical Solutions Architect Jonah Berquist. →

By JD Lien | January 18, 2023

Learn what the N+1 queries problem is by working through an example N+1 query updating it to a JOIN statement and going over how to identify them in the future. →

By Mike Stojan | January 11, 2023

A quick glimpse on Support at PlanetScale and the issues we see the most often. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | January 10, 2023

Learn how to solve your Rails applications N+1’s caused by `exists?` queries. →

By Matt Robenolt | January 4, 2023

In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client. →

By Andres Taylor | December 15, 2022

Learn how query planning works and why query planners are important. →

By Savannah Longoria | December 14, 2022

Learn how PlanetScale simplifies the process of running Temporal in production by looking at how our customer runs heavy production workloads. →

By Jason Charnes | December 12, 2022

A comprehensive overview of Rails’ many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | December 8, 2022

Learn how to configure your database in a multi-region Rails application to decrease latency across the globe. →

By Brian Morrison II | December 7, 2022

Learn how to encrypt your connection strings so that not even AWS can access them. →

By Brian Morrison II | November 30, 2022

PlanetScale is more than just a drop-in replacement for MySQL. Learn about everything PlanetScale can do for you →

By Sam Kottler | November 18, 2022

PlanetScale can now enter into Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with customers on an Enterprise plan. →

By Vicent Marti | November 15, 2022

Learn how we use a partial materialization engine for database caching alongside your database. →

By Rick Branson | November 15, 2022

Up to 1 000× faster queries in just a few clicks with our groundbreaking caching technology. →

By Liz van Dijk | November 1, 2022

Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL. →

By Brian Morrison II | October 31, 2022

Gain a deeper understanding of the MySQL integer types by exploring the different options (INT BIGINT MEDIUMINT etc) and how they are stored. →

By Vitess Engineering Team | October 26, 2022

Vitess 15 is now generally available with updates to VTOrc VTAdmin MySQL compatibility and more. →

By Brian Morrison II | October 21, 2022

Learn what Vitess is, how it works, and how it can improve your database‘s resilience, scalability, and performance. →

By Aaron Francis | October 19, 2022

A comprehensive overview of Laravel’s many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes. →

By Florent Poinsard, Harshit Gangal | October 11, 2022

Learn how we detected and optimized two slow queries in arewefastyet using PlanetScale Insights. →

By JD Lien | October 7, 2022

Learn how and when to use inner joins, outer joins, left joins, and right joins in MySQL. →

By Aaron Francis | October 4, 2022

Learn how to index JSON in MySQL with generated columns and functional indexes. →