What is MySQL partitioning?
Learn the basics of MySQL partitioning, including partitioning with range, list, and key strategies, as well as how partitioning relates to database sharding.
MySQL High Availability: Connection handling and concurrency
Deep dive into MySQL’s connection handling mechanisms for optimal connection pooling and improved concurrency.
Personalizing your onboarding with Markdoc
Learn how we utilized Markdoc to create custom, extendable product onboarding at PlanetScale.
PlanetScale is bringing vector search and storage to MySQL
We are adding vector storage and search to MySQL, enabling you to use PlanetScale for your AI use cases.
PlanetScale Managed is now PCI compliant
PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant.
How to Scale your Database and when to Shard MySQL
Not sure when to shard your MySQL database? This article covers when you should consider horizontal sharding as a scaling strategy in MySQL and some other scaling options before then.
Scaling hundreds of thousands of database clusters on Kubernetes
Explore what to consider when deploying databases to Kubernetes, and how PlanetScale utilizes Kubernetes and Vitess to run hundreds of thousands of databases.
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.
Emulating foreign key constraints with Drizzle relationships
Learn how to build virtual relationships between tables in PlanetScale while using the Drizzle TypeScript ORM.
Horizontal sharding for MySQL made easy
Historically, there has been the belief that you cannot horizontally scale and shard MySQL, learn how Vitess has made MySQL sharding at the database layer a reality.
Deploying multiple schema changes at once
Why PlanetScale deploys branch changes near-atomically, and how it applies concurrency and dependency resolution without impacting production databases.
What makes up a PlanetScale database?
Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.
Vitess for us all
Learn how middleware technology works, the pitfalls of application-level sharding, and how Vitess enables horizontal sharding of MySQL for near infinite scale.
Introducing IP restrictions
PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.
Storing time series data in sharded MySQL to power Query Insights
How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale.
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.
Performant database tree traversal with Rails
Learn how to solve a tree traversal N+1 query problem in your Rails application.
Announcing PlanetScale Scaler Pro
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.
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.
How PlanetScale keeps your data safe
A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe.
Announcing Vitess 17
In this release of Vitess, several significant enhancements have been introduced to improve the compatibility, performance, and usability of the system.
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.
Datetimes versus timestamps in MySQL
Learn the differences between datetimes and timestamps in MySQL, the DATE, YEAR, and TIME columns, timezones, and when to use each.
Generated Hash Columns in MySQL
Creating generated hash columns in MySQL for faster strict equality lookups.
Using PlanetScale with Serverless Framework Node applications on AWS
Learn how to integrate PlanetScale with Node applications built using the Serverless Framework on AWS.
