AWS regions and availability zones are how applications stay online...

Follow a SQL query through the router, across four Postgres shards, and back.

What makes a good sharding strategy today might not work so well tomorrow. What happens when you have one tenant hitting your database orders of magnitude more than any other? Or product managers knocking down your door with new requirements? If you're already on Neki, fortunately these are issues we can solve.

ARM and x86 can give you different performance at the same vCPU count. Here's what differs, what to measure, and how to choose.

Nathan Fielder made a documentary about Elizabeth Holmes, we got a bunch of tickets to watch it with you. Join us at AMC Kabuki 8 to watch You Can See…

A good Postgres search demo was doing the rounds online. Let's see what happens when we upgrade it to TIN.

How a full-text search engine works, and how it works in Postgres

Postgres understands high-availability architecture, but its defaults assume you don't have replication slots. This can get you into trouble in a cutover event. The combination of what Postgres can do and what PlanetScale lets you do is what keeps connected applications safe.

Sharded Postgres, from the team behind Vitess

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Neki is available today in platform preview: https://neki.devNeki...

We're happy to have Adam Stacoviak, founder and editor-in-chief of Changelog, at PlanetScale's HQ for Changelog IRL! An evening of short talks and…

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We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.

Join us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van…

Join us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van…

A Neki router gives applications a Postgres connection to one database while planning and coordinating queries across the shards behind it.

Join us on September 10th for a first look into Neki, our sharded Postgres product. We'll have talks from our database professor Ben Dicken, CTO Nick Van…

Check out https://planetscale.com for more Postgres and MySQL conte...

Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki "do-over" of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500T...

Postgres presents pretty predictable performance problems when dealing with large tables. Sharding solves this.

Why has it taken so long to get good Postgres sharding? The last 20 years are the answer.

An engineer's worst nightmare is waking up to a seemingly read-only database with no clear issue in sight. Let's dig into why this happens, and how AI can help solve it.

Increasing throughput sometimes requires reducing parallelism. A look into why this is the case for Vitess + MySQL databases

Announcing CRITICAL mass, a one-of-a-kind talk series and networking event held under NDA and Chatham House rules. Every leading company is struggling to keep…

Our recent migration to PlanetScale ensures our platform can scale reliably in an industry where precision and speed directly affect patient care.

The principles and processes we follow for fault tolerance.

Magicare drives better patient outcomes, automates your busywork, and increases employee happiness—all from one simple dashboard purpose built for post acute healthcare.

Reducing the size and frequency of requests to your database has the double benefit of making your applications faster and cheaper.