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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?
Engineering

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
Sync user data between Clerk and a PlanetScale MySQL database
Tutorials

Sync user data between Clerk and a PlanetScale MySQL database

Learn how to sync user data from a Clerk project into your PlanetScale MySQL database with webhooks using Netlify and Netlify Functions.

Brian Morrison II
Introducing PlanetScale Managed on AWS and GCP
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Introducing PlanetScale Managed on AWS and GCP

Deploy PlanetScale in your AWS or GCP account with our Enterprise PlanetScale Managed plan.

James Cunningham
Introducing database reports
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Introducing database reports

Bringing weekly reports of the most important parts of your database, straight to your inbox.

Frances Thai
Distributed caching systems and MySQL
Engineering

Distributed caching systems and MySQL

Learn what distributed caching systems are, how they complement MySQL databases, and potential issues you might face when implementing them.

Brian Morrison II
What is MySQL partitioning?
Engineering

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.

Brian Morrison II
Personalizing your onboarding with Markdoc
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Personalizing your onboarding with Markdoc

Learn how we utilized Markdoc to create custom, extendable product onboarding at PlanetScale.

Ayrton
PlanetScale is bringing vector search and storage to MySQL
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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.

Nick Van Wiggeren
PlanetScale Managed is now PCI compliant
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PlanetScale Managed is now PCI compliant

PlanetScale Managed on AWS is now PCI compliant.

Frank Fink
How to scale your database and when to shard MySQL
Engineering

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.

Jonah Berquist
Scaling hundreds of thousands of database clusters on Kubernetes
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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.

Brian Morrison II
Streamline database management using the PlanetScale Netlify integration
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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.

Taylor Barnett
Emulating foreign key constraints with Drizzle relationships
Tutorials

Emulating foreign key constraints with Drizzle relationships

Learn how to build virtual relationships between tables in PlanetScale while using the Drizzle TypeScript ORM.

Brian Morrison II
Horizontal sharding for MySQL made easy
Engineering

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.

Lucy Burns, Taylor Barnett
Deploying multiple schema changes at once
Engineering

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.

Shlomi Noach
What makes up a PlanetScale database?
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What makes up a PlanetScale database?

Learn about all of the tech driving every PlanetScale database.

Brian Morrison II
Introducing IP restrictions
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Introducing IP restrictions

PlanetScale now supports IP restrictions for database passwords as another tool to operate your database securely.

Iheanyi Ekechukwu, David Graham, Ayrton
Storing time series data in sharded MySQL to power Query Insights
Engineering

Storing time series data in sharded MySQL to power Query Insights

How we built a scalable telemetry pipeline with Apache Kafka and PlanetScale.

Rafer Hazen
Is your database bleeding money?
Product

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?

Sam Lambert
How brand design works at PlanetScale
Engineering

How brand design works at PlanetScale

Learn how the Brand team designs and builds marketing experiences at PlanetScale.

Skully Paoli
Build a contacts app with Node, Express, and MySQL
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Build a contacts app with Node, Express, and MySQL

Learn how to build a contacts web app with Node, Express, and PlanetScale.

Olususi Oluyemi
PlanetScale Boost is now available to everyone
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PlanetScale Boost is now available to everyone

PlanetScale Boost is now in public beta — up to 1,000× faster database queries with just a few clicks.

Rick Branson
How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity
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How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity

A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity.

Justin Gage
Performant database tree traversal with Rails
Engineering

Performant database tree traversal with Rails

Learn how to solve a tree traversal N+1 query problem in your Rails application.

Mike Coutermarsh