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By Sugu Sougoumarane |

In part 5 of our consensus algorithms series we discuss how we handle race conditions and forward progress requirements.


By Sugu Sougoumarane |

In part 4 of the consensus algorithms series we look at how algorithm leaders are established and revoked.


By Vicent Marti |

Go 1.18 is here, and with it, the first release of the long-awaited implementation of Generics is finallyready for production usage. Generics are a frequently requested feature that has been highly contentiousthroughout the Go community.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn why PlanetScale used NanoID to generate obscure and URL friendly identifiers.


By Taylor Barnett |

Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.


By Holly Guevara, Shlomi Noach |

Learn how we used VReplication to allow for migration reverts with data retention.


By James Q Quick |

Don’t let SQL injection attacks hurt your business.


By Camila Ramos |

This database schema design guide walks you through walk through the basics of creating and designing schemas for relational databases.


By Jason Long |

We’re sharing the PlanetScale-powered communication tool we use internally.


By Florent Poinsard |

Learn about the Vitess 13 release.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

How to build self-healing background jobs into your application with background queueing systems like Sidekiq.


By Holly Guevara |

Learn how to build a Laravel CRUD application connect it to a MySQL database and seed it with data.


By James Q Quick |

Use Prisma and Next.js to automatically populate your database with data.


By Nick Van Wiggeren |

Database issues experts have faced at companies like GitHub, DigitalOcean, and Etsy and define the stages of database growth that you should be aiming towards at each stage of your company.


By Holly Guevara |

Learn how to speed up your Laravel applications with caching.


By Taylor Barnett |

Learn how to build automated workflows to develop and operate PlanetScale databases with GitHub Actions.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

When implementing user authentication with passwords throw out the password rules you know.


By Camila Ramos |

A step-by-step guide for using PlanetScale and Prisma with Next.js.


By Mike Coutermarsh |

Learn how we use minitest and FactoryBot with parallel tests to get our Rails test suite to run in 1 minute on Buildkite.


By Taylor Barnett |

Create a PlanetScale database on the Prisma Data Platform; immediately store and query data from the browser


By Phani Raju |

PlanetScale now supports zero downtime data migrations from your existing MySQL Database


By Sam Lambert |

PlanetScale is now GA.


By James Cunningham |

Deploy PlanetScale in your AWS or GCP account with our Enterprise PlanetScale Managed plan.


By Sam Lambert |

We’ve updated our database plans to better meet your needs


By Jarod Reyes |

PlanetScale draws customers from RDS due to better scalability, superior developer workflow, and typically much lower cost