Instant deploy requests
PlanetScale now supports instant DDL. Where eligible, you can run deploy requests that complete near-instantly.
Tracking index usage with Insights
Learn about the new PlanetScale Insights index tracking feature.
Self-managed Vitess vs Managed Vitess with PlanetScale
PlanetScale and Vitess have a close relationship. Learn what it looks like to run Vitess on your own vs using PlanetScale. We cover cost, time to implement, management, and more.
Introducing global replica credentials
With global replica credentials, you can now automatically route reads to the closest replica.
Introducing schema recommendations
Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.
OAuth applications are now available to everyone
You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application.
Databases at scale
Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network.
Introducing the Vantage and PlanetScale integration
The Vantage + PlanetScale integration is now available.
$ pscale ping
How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out.
Announcing foreign key constraints support
You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases.
Introducing Insights Anomalies
This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database.
Announcing the Fivetran integration
Learn how you can extract, load, and transform your PlanetScale data with Fivetran.
Safely dropping MySQL tables
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.
Introducing webhooks
You can now automatically trigger HTTP callbacks on events in PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and workflows.
Introducing PlanetScale Managed on AWS and GCP
Deploy PlanetScale in your AWS or GCP account with our Enterprise PlanetScale Managed plan.
Introducing database reports
Bringing weekly reports of the most important parts of your database, straight to your inbox.
PlanetScale Managed is now PCI compliant
PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant.
The art and science of database sharding
Grasping when and how to shard, selecting the ideal shard keys, and managing cross-shard queries effectively can prove difficult even for seasoned engineers. Learn how to do this, and more in this tech talk.
Streamline database management using the PlanetScale Netlify integration
Learn how to use the new PlanetScale Netlify integration to simplify the process of wiring up a database to your Netlify applications.
What makes up a PlanetScale database?
Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.
Introducing IP restrictions
PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.
Is your database bleeding money?
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?
Database caching: Optimizing performance
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.
How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity
A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity.
Incorporating databases into your CI/CD pipeline
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.
Introduction to PlanetScale
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.
Action on your product data in real time
PlanetScale and Hightouch cover how you can make use of one of your most valuable company assets: product data.
Announcing the Hightouch integration
Learn how to sync data between PlanetScale and other platforms using Hightouch.
Pulling back the curtain: the new database overview page
Learn about the latest updates we made to our database overview page: load balancers, shards, and more.