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By Brian Morrison II |

In this entry of the series we explore using VARCHAR and CHAR data types in your database and give some pointers on which type is best to use and when.


By Rafer Hazen |

Learn about the new PlanetScale Insights database errors feature.


By Mike Stojan |

Learn what the MySQL JSON data type is when to use MySQL JSON and some caveats to using JSON documents in relational databases.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to use the PlanetScale serverless driver by creating a serverless API in AWS with JavaScript.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to use Atlas CLI with PlanetScale to define your database as code.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to build an automated DevOps pipeline with AWS Lightsail CodeBuild and PlanetScale.


By Liz van Dijk |

Learn how we used TAOBench with PlanetScale to benchmark social media workloads


By Shlomi Noach |

We just introduced a new feature Gated Deployments that gives you more control over when your schema changes deploy.


By Jonah Berquist |

Discover how PlanetScale handles one million queries per second (QPS) with horizontal sharding in MySQL


By Holly Guevara |

Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale.


By Brian Morrison II |

Learn how to run commands in batch against a PlanetScale database using the PlanetScale CLI.


By Jason Long |

Learn about the lightweight and highly collaborative process our product design team follows to ship quickly at PlanetScale.


By Taylor Barnett, Matt Robenolt |

You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries.


By Elom Gomez |

Learn how PlanetScale uses a custom middleware to kill our Sidekiq jobs in production without relying on deploys.


By Sam Lambert |

Learn how PlanetScale enables databases to seamlessly fit into the DevOps lifecycle.


By Sam Lambert |

Learn how PlanetScale protects against downtime due to human error system immaturity and app issues.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn how to delete data in large Rails apps with destroy_async delete destroy and scheduled cron jobs.


By Sam Lambert |

Handle MySQL increment counter bursts with the Slotted Counter Pattern


By Phani Raju |

Learn how we leveraged Vitess ACLs and VTTablet to build our password roles functionality


By David Graham |

Learn how to safely drop tables in MySQL by checking if the table is still in use and how PlanetScale makes this process much easier.


By Savannah Longoria |

Learn how to create a more reliable workflow with Temporal and PlanetScale


By Iheanyi Ekechukwu |

Learn how you can manage database access with Teams and Directory Sync


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn about how we built the new in-app system status using Vercel edge functions and StatusPage


By Justin Gage |

Learn how database indexes work under the hood and how they can be used to speed up queries