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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.
Pitfalls of Isolation Levels in Distributed Databases
The more loosely coupled components are in a distributed system, the better it scale
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.
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.
Blog series: Consensus Algorithms at Scale - Part 2
The Rules of Consensus
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.
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.
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
Demo: Multi-Cloud on PlanetScaleDB
Software engineer Abhi Vaidyanatha walks us through a live deployment of a true multi-cloud Vitess cluster on PlanetScaleDB
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.
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.
Debunking 3 myths about Vitess fault tolerance
Here at PlanetScale we hear some concerns about the reliability of Vitess and its capabilities with regards to data loss.
Announcing Vitess 6
I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule.
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.
Videos: Intro to Vitess—its powerful capabilities and how to get started
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.
Behind the Scenes at PlanetScale Engineering: Why is Multi-Cloud a Hard Problem?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Security Update: New GCR Based Planetscale Public Registry
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.
