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PlanetScale forever
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PlanetScale forever

PlanetScale is committed to providing a reliable and sustainable platform for our customers, not just in the short-term, but forever. For this reason, we are prioritizing profitability.

Sam Lambert
Introducing schema recommendations
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Introducing schema recommendations

Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.

Taylor Barnett, Rafer Hazen
March 13, 2024

Monthly spend alerts

You can now set monthly spend alerts for your PlanetScale organization.

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March 6, 2024

Deprecating the Hobby plan

We are deprecating the free tier Hobby plan.

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February 29, 2024

CPU and memory metrics now in Datadog

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Foreign key constraints are now generally available
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Foreign key constraints are now generally available

You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database.

Taylor Barnett, Rick Branson
Amazon Aurora Pricing: The many surprising costs of running an Aurora database
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Amazon Aurora Pricing: The many surprising costs of running an Aurora database

Amazon Aurora is pitched as a straightforward and scalable database service on AWS, but there are associated costs that you might not be aware of.

Brian Morrison II
Three common MySQL database design mistakes
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Three common MySQL database design mistakes

Learn about a few common mistakes when designing your MySQL database schema.

Brian Morrison II
OAuth applications are now available to everyone
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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.

Taylor Barnett
Deprecating the Scaler plan
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Deprecating the Scaler plan

Today, in our effort to continue being the best database for serverless and applications that require massive scale, we are deprecating the Scaler plan.

Nick Van Wiggeren
PlanetScale branching vs. Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments
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PlanetScale branching vs. Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments

Learn the key differences between Amazon Aurora blue/green deployments and PlanetScale branching.

Brian Morrison II
Considerations for building a database disaster recovery plan
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Considerations for building a database disaster recovery plan

Learn different considerations and best practices for quickly and efficiently recovering your database when downtime hits.

Brian Morrison II
Working with geospatial features in MySQL
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Working with geospatial features in MySQL

In this blog post, we explore how complex data and geographic features can be represented in MySQL.

Savannah Longoria
PlanetScale vs Amazon Aurora replication
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PlanetScale vs Amazon Aurora replication

Learn about how Amazon Aurora replication works, and how it compares to the traditional MySQL replication strategy used by PlanetScale.

Brian Morrison II
Introducing the Vantage and PlanetScale integration
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Introducing the Vantage and PlanetScale integration

The Vantage + PlanetScale integration is now available.

Mike Coutermarsh
MySQL isolation levels and how they work
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MySQL isolation levels and how they work

Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database.

Brian Morrison II
Introducing the schemadiff command line tool
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Introducing the schemadiff command line tool

We are releasing schemadiff, an open source command line tool to generate diffs between two MySQL databases.

Shlomi Noach
$ pscale ping
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$ pscale ping

How close am I to PlanetScale? Use our new CLI command, pscale ping, to find out.

Matt Robenolt
Announcing foreign key constraints support
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Announcing foreign key constraints support

You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases.

Taylor Barnett
The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints
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The challenges of supporting foreign key constraints

Today, PlanetScale launched support for foreign key constraints. This article covers some of the behind-the-scenes technical challenges we had to overcome to support them.

Shlomi Noach, Manan Gupta
What is HTAP?
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What is HTAP?

Learn what HTAP is, how HTAP compares to OLAP and OLTP, and some pros and cons of HTAP.

Savannah Longoria
Introducing Insights Anomalies
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Introducing Insights Anomalies

This new update to PlanetScale Insights introduces smart query monitoring to detect slower than expected queries in your database.

Rafer Hazen
Webhook security: a hands-on guide
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Webhook security: a hands-on guide

Learn what went into building PlanetScale webhooks from a security perspective. This article covers SSRF, webhook validation, DDoS, and more.

Mike Coutermarsh
Three surprising benefits of sharding a MySQL database
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Three surprising benefits of sharding a MySQL database

There is more to sharding than simply increasing data throughput. In this article, we explore three different benefits of sharding your database.

Brian Morrison II
MySQL replication: Best practices and considerations
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MySQL replication: Best practices and considerations

Learn the best practices for configuring MySQL replication, and how to ensure your data is always available.

Brian Morrison II
A guide to HTML email with Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS
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A guide to HTML email with Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS

Learn how to build HTML emails using Rails and Tailwind CSS. We also cover how to overcome some common obstacles such as Gmail message clipping, large file size, Apple autolinking, and more.

Ayrton
PlanetScale ranks 188th in Deloitte’s top 500 fastest-growing companies
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PlanetScale ranks 188th in Deloitte’s top 500 fastest-growing companies

We are pleased to announce that PlanetScale has been named on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.

Sam Lambert
Announcing Vitess 18
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Announcing Vitess 18

Vitess 18 is now generally available, with a number of new enhancements designed to improve usability, performance, and MySQL compatibility.

Vitess Engineering Team
Announcing the Fivetran integration
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Announcing the Fivetran integration

Learn how you can extract, load, and transform your PlanetScale data with Fivetran.

Taylor Barnett, Katie Sipos
Safely dropping MySQL tables
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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.

David Graham
Introducing webhooks
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Introducing webhooks

You can now automatically trigger HTTP callbacks on events in PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and workflows.

Taylor Barnett, Mike Coutermarsh
What is MySQL replication and when should you use it?
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What is MySQL replication and when should you use it?

Learn about what database replication is and some real-world use cases of MySQL replication that can benefit your database scalability strategy.

Brian Morrison II