Blog

By Holly Guevara | August 29, 2022

Learn how to run no downtime non-blocking schema migrations in your production Laravel app with PlanetScale. →

By Brian Morrison II | August 25, 2022

Learn how to run commands in batch against a PlanetScale database using the PlanetScale CLI. →

By Jason Long | August 22, 2022

Learn about the lightweight and highly collaborative process our product design team follows to ship quickly at PlanetScale. →

By Taylor Barnett, Matt Robenolt | August 18, 2022

You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | August 16, 2022

Introducing FastPage a new gem for ActiveRecord that speeds up deep pagination queries. →

By Elom Gomez | August 15, 2022

Learn how PlanetScale uses a custom middleware to kill our Sidekiq jobs in production without relying on deploys. →

By Sam Lambert | August 8, 2022

Learn how PlanetScale enables databases to seamlessly fit into the DevOps lifecycle. →

By Sam Lambert | August 2, 2022

Learn how PlanetScale protects against downtime due to human error system immaturity and app issues. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | August 1, 2022

Learn how to delete data in large Rails apps with destroy_async delete destroy and scheduled cron jobs. →

By Sam Lambert | July 28, 2022

Handle MySQL increment counter bursts with the Slotted Counter Pattern →

By Phani Raju | July 27, 2022

Learn how we leveraged Vitess ACLs and VTTablet to build our password roles functionality →

By David Graham | July 25, 2022

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. →

By Savannah Longoria | July 22, 2022

Learn how to create a more reliable workflow with Temporal and PlanetScale →

By Iheanyi Ekechukwu | July 20, 2022

Learn how you can manage database access with Teams and Directory Sync →

By Mike Coutermarsh | July 19, 2022

Learn about how we built the new in-app system status using Vercel edge functions and StatusPage →

By Justin Gage | July 14, 2022

Learn how database indexes work under the hood and how they can be used to speed up queries →

By Brian Morrison II | July 12, 2022

Learn how to quickly get up and running with the PlanetScale CLI. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | July 7, 2022

In the final installment of the consensus algorithm series we pull everything together with some final thoughts. →

By Mike Coutermarsh | July 6, 2022

We’ve updated our Deploy Request UI to alert when a schema change could produce unintended changes →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | July 1, 2022

In part 7 of the Consensus algorithm series we combine everything we’ve worked at to cover propagating requests →

By Mike Coutermarsh, Iheanyi Ekechukwu | June 29, 2022

Learn how to use sqlcommenter with Rails →

By Vitess Engineering Team | June 28, 2022

Learn about what was just released in Vitess 14 →

By Andres Taylor | June 24, 2022

Vitess is a database proxy that creates an illusion of a single database when in reality the query is sent to multiple MySQL instances. →

By Sugu Sougoumarane | June 21, 2022

In part 6 of the Consensus algorithms series we look at how to handle request completions →

By Holly Guevara | May 26, 2022

Insights gives you a faster way to debug and monitor your PlanetScale database queries →