Blog
By Aaron Francis |
Learn how to index JSON in MySQL with generated columns and functional indexes. →
By Brian Morrison II |
In this entry of the series we explore using VARCHAR and CHAR data types in your database and give some pointers on which type is best to use and when. →
By Mike Stojan |
Learn what the MySQL JSON data type is when to use MySQL JSON and some caveats to using JSON documents in relational databases. →
By Jonah Berquist |
Discover how PlanetScale handles one million queries per second (QPS) with horizontal sharding in MySQL →
By Holly Guevara |
Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale. →
By Jason Long |
Learn about the lightweight and highly collaborative process our product design team follows to ship quickly at PlanetScale. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries. →
By Elom Gomez |
Learn how PlanetScale uses a custom middleware to kill our Sidekiq jobs in production without relying on deploys. →
By Sam Lambert |
Learn how PlanetScale enables databases to seamlessly fit into the DevOps lifecycle. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Learn how to delete data in large Rails apps with destroy_async delete destroy and scheduled cron jobs. →
By Phani Raju |
Learn how we leveraged Vitess ACLs and VTTablet to build our password roles functionality →
By Justin Gage |
Learn how database indexes work under the hood and how they can be used to speed up queries →
By Shlomi Noach |
An exploration of the current landscape of schema change methodology and what the future should look like. →
By Vicent Marti |
Go 1.18 is here, and with it, the first release of the long-awaited implementation of Generics is finallyready for production usage. Generics are a frequently requested feature that has been highly contentiousthroughout the Go community. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Learn why PlanetScale used NanoID to generate obscure and URL friendly identifiers. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
How to build self-healing background jobs into your application with background queueing systems like Sidekiq. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
When implementing user authentication with passwords throw out the password rules you know. →
By Mike Coutermarsh |
Learn how we use minitest and FactoryBot with parallel tests to get our Rails test suite to run in 1 minute on Buildkite. →
By Justin Gage |
Databases will win based on superior developer experience not what is under the hood. →