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International Women's Day 2021

3/8/2021

To celebrate International Women’s Day we took some time to ask ourselves, the women of PlanetScale, what questions we’d want to answer and then share regarding our careers in tech.

5 minute read.

1/27/2021

Announcing Vitess 9.0

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 9.

4 minute read.

10/27/2020

Announcing Vitess 8.0

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 8 for MySQL.

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2 minute read.

10/22/2020

Horizontal Sharding for MySQL Made Easy

Want to horizontally scale your database without all the effort? Check out our latest resharding workflow that allows you to scale from 1 shard to 128 with a few clicks of a button.

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3 minute read.

10/4/2020

Pitfalls of Isolation Levels in Distributed Databases

The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system, the better it scale

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7 minute read.

10/2/2020

MySQL semi-sync replication: durability, consistency and split brains

We look at some basics and follow up to present scenarios that require higher level intervention to ensure availability and to avoid split brains from taking place.

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10 minute read.

9/26/2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 3

Consensus Use Cases

Orchestrator failure detection and recovery: New Beginnings

how the new integration adds new failure detection and recovery scenarios, making orchestrator’s operation goal-oriented.

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6 minute read.

9/9/2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 2

The Rules of Consensus

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3 minute read.

9/1/2020

On joining PlanetScale and the vision of open source database infrastructure

Why I joined PlanetScale to work on Vitess and PlanetScaleDB, and what I perceive Vitess can become in the MySQL open source ecosystem.

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4 minute read.

8/28/2020

Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 1

This is a multi-part blog series and will be updated with links to the corresponding posts.

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9 minute read.

8/14/2020

Learn Horizontal Scaling on PlanetScaleDB with Vitess — Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

Rate Puppies in a Rust app with Sharded MySQL Database

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3 minute read.

8/14/2020

Demo: Multi-Cloud on PlanetScaleDB

3 minute read.

8/14/2020

Software engineer Abhi Vaidyanatha walks us through a live deployment of a true multi-cloud Vitess cluster on PlanetScaleDB

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8 minute read.

8/7/2020

How to set up a scalable, stateful web app in 10 minutes

Pair a rapid app deployment solution with a scalable SQL database, allowing you to iterate quickly with the knowledge that your storage will grow with your data.

2 minute read.

7/28/2020

Announcing Vitess 7

On behalf of the Vitess maintainers team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 7. Major Themes Improved SQL Support We continued to progress towards (almost) full MySQL compatibility.

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2 minute read.

6/10/2020

Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance

2 minute read.

6/10/2020

Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss.

2 minute read.

4/29/2020

Announcing Vitess 6

2 minute read.

4/29/2020

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule.

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6 minute read.

4/29/2020

ACID Transactions are not just for banks - the Vitess approach

Build systems that do not lose data. Vitess prevents asynchronous failure in two ways: (1) ensuring that the changes are saved locally on storage, with the redo log and binary logs safely written to disk and (2) making use of semi-synchronous replication.

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2 minute read.

4/23/2020

Videos: Intro to Vitess—its powerful capabilities and how to get started

2 minute read.

4/23/2020

This video playlist featuring Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, is an excellent resource to learn more about the features and capabilities of open source Vitess.

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7 minute read.

4/10/2020

Behind the Scenes at PlanetScale Engineering: Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?

7 minute read.

4/10/2020

With the recent release of our new multi-cloud offering, the PlanetScale engineering team achieved a feat that has never been done before: enabling a database-as-a-service to replicate across the three major cloud providers. Learn how we did it.

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5 minute read.

3/31/2020

PlanetScaleDB delivers true multi-cloud, multi-region clusters on AWS, GCP, and Azure

True multi-cloud, multi-region clusters for PlanetScaleDB now available in beta release on AWS, GCP, and Azure.

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3 minute read.

3/31/2020

How to deploy a true multi-cloud database on PlanetScaleDB

We’ve made it easy to set up a multi-region or multi-cloud database. While our multi-cloud and multi-region databases on PlanetScaleDB are in beta and should not be used for production workloads, you can get started right away by creating an account.

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3 minute read.

3/20/2020

PlanetScale migrates open source Vitess test suite from Python to Go

It's easier than ever to contribute to Vitess. The test suite migration from Python to golang makes Vitess more developer friendly.

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2 minute read.

3/3/2020

Security Update: New GCR Based Planetscale Public Registry

2 minute read.

3/3/2020

March 3, 2020 Security Update: New GCR Based Planetscale Public Registry If you are still pulling from registry.planetscale.com, you should update all your systems to instead pull from us.gcr.io/planetscale-vitess by March 26, 2020.