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Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Andres Taylor, Dirkjan Bussink, Harshit Gangal, Nick Van Wiggeren, Noble Mittal, Rohit Nayak, Roman Sodermans, Shlomi Noach, Sam Lambert | August 11, 2025 Today, we are announcing Neki — sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess. Vitess is one of PlanetScale’s greatest strengths and contemporary Vitess

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Ben Dicken | July 8, 2025 Every time you use a computer, caches work to ensure your experience is fast. Everything a computer does from executing an instruction on the CPU, to requesting your X.com feed, to loading this very webpage, relies heavily on caching. You are about to enjoy a guided, interactive

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Sam Lambert | July 1, 2025 Today we are announcing the private preview of PlanetScale for Postgres: the world’s fastest Postgres hosting platform. You can request access to PlanetScale for Postgres by visiting this link. We are already hosting customers' production workloads with incredible results. Conv

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Nick Van Wiggeren | March 18, 2025 PlanetScale has deployed millions of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes across the world. We create and destroy tens of thousands of them every day as we stand up databases for customers, take backups, and test our systems end-to-end. Through this experience, we h

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Ben Dicken | March 13, 2025 Non-volatile storage is a cornerstone of modern computer systems. Every modern photo, email, bank balance, medical record, and other critical pieces of data are kept on digital storage devices, often replicated many times over for added durability. Non-volatile storage, or col

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Talk to Solutions By Benjamin Dicken | January 9, 2025 What is shardingSharding is the process of scaling a database by spreading out the data across multiple servers, or shards. Sharding is the go-to database scaling solution for many large organizations managing data at petabyte scale. Your favo

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Ben Dicken | September 9, 2024 What is a B-tree?The B-tree plays a foundational role in many pieces of software, especially database management systems (DBMS). MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Dynamo, and many others rely on B-trees to perform efficient data lookups via indexes. By the time you finish this arti

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Mike Coutermarsh | April 4, 2024 Engineering team velocity is one of our top priorities at PlanetScale, both for our own teams and for all developers using the tools we build. One of our early goals when building PlanetScale was to make the absolute best schema change process for engineering teams. We've

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Brian Morrison II | March 19, 2024 Universally Unique Identifiers, also known as UUIDs, are designed to allow developers to generate unique IDs in a way that guarantees uniqueness without knowledge of other systems. These are especially useful in a distributed architecture, where you have a number of sys

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Sam Lambert | March 6, 2024 PlanetScale is an infrastructure company. Our service is mission critical, and we value reliability above all else. Reliability isn’t just an uptime percentage on your status page. It means your business is self-sustaining. Every unprofitable company has a date in the future w

Welcome! MySQL for Developers is PlanetScale’s free MySQL course that teaches you schema basics, indexing, querying, and beyond. This intermediate MySQL course is appropriate for both developers just getting started with MySQL and those who need a refresher. The course has been created with usability and application in mind. Everything you learn in this course can be taken and applied to your own

Want to learn more about Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Talk to Solutions By Mike Coutermarsh | March 29, 2022 When we were first building PlanetScale’s API, we needed to figure out what type of identifier we’d be using. We knew that we wanted to avoid using integer IDs so that we wouldn’t reveal the count of records in all our tables. The common solution to this problem is us

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Matt Robenolt | January 4, 2023 Over here at PlanetScale, we offer you a MySQL database. As a part of this offering, it is critical that we offer you a MySQL protocol-compatible interface to access. This enables using mysql-client as well as any MySQL-compatible driver for your favorite language. But wha

When you buy PlanetScale, you’re getting the technology and database expertise that ran and scaled YouTube, the internet’s #2 site, and the team that scaled GitHub to over 100M users globally.– Todd Berman @Attentive PerformancePlanetScale Metal allows you to run your database on the fastest servers available in the cloud. Our blazing fast NVMe drives unlock unlimited IOPS and drastically lower la

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal, Vitess, horizontal sharding, or Enterprise options? Talk to Solutions By Aaron Francis | October 4, 2022 MySQL gave us the JSON data type back in mid-2015 with the release of MySQL 5.7.8. Since then, it has been used as a way to escape rigid column definitions and store JSON documents of all shapes and sizes: audit logs, configuration settings, 3rd

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Jonah Berquist | September 1, 2022 Knowing your database can scale provides great peace of mind. We built PlanetScale on top of Vitess so that we could harness its ability to massively scale. One of the core strengths in our ability to scale is horizontal sharding. To demonstrate the power of horizontal

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Taylor Barnett, Matt Robenolt | August 18, 2022 Today we are introducing the PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript, a Fetch API-compatible database driver. This new driver and infrastructure update brings you: The ability to store and query data in PlanetScale from environments such as Cloudflare

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Sam Lambert | July 28, 2022 It is a common database pattern to increment an INT column when an event happens, such as a download or page view. You can go far with this pattern until bursts of these types of events happen in parallel and you experience contention on a single row. When multiple transaction

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Taylor Barnett | May 24, 2022 If you deploy your applications in regions around the globe and need to keep database read latency low, you will want to physically have a database nearby. With PlanetScale Portals, you can now create read-only regions to support your globally distributed applications and be

🚧 Pardon our dust while we transition our blog to our new website. Go 1.18 is here, and with it, the first release of the long-awaited implementation of Generics is finally ready for production usage. Generics are a frequently requested feature that has been highly contentious throughout the Go community. On the one side, vocal detractors worry about the added complexity. They fear the inescapabl

Want to learn more about unlimited IOPS w/ Metal for Postgres and Vitess? Talk to Solutions By Taylor Barnett | March 24, 2022 Bad migrations happen every day and data loss can be devastating. PlanetScale’s new schema revert feature gives you the power to revert changes after a schema migration with no downtime and zero data loss. What is it?Have you ever made a schema change, like changing a colu