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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 23/09/2026

PlanetScale is at Rails World this week in Austin, Texas. Come by our booth for merch, a product demo, and to meet some of the team.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 16/09/2026

Today we introduce TIN: a powerful and reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN works with complicated WHERE clauses, replication, backups, and maintains correct transaction visibility. It's also mind-blowingly fast.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 02/09/2026

Unblock stuck connections with live connection management in the PlanetScale CLI and dashboard. Find out more. planetscale.com/blog/debugging-live…

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 31/08/2026

You've just been paged. Every database query is failing to execute. Figure out why. This exact question is how early GitHub hired its DBAs. The answer in our latest blog: planetscale.com/blog/debugging-live…

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 28/08/2026

You've probably never heard of sub-linear scaling. But if your Postgres database keeps taking on more traffic, you're headed there. You can scale by throwing bigger servers at it. But eventually, you need to scale beyond one machine. Neki gives you sharded Postgres from the team behind Vitess.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 27/08/2026

Mixedbread moved their control plane to PlanetScale and eliminated a significant amount of operational work: Their hottest control-plane queries now execute with sub-millisecond latency. Read more: www.mixedbread.com/blog/planetscale…

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 26/08/2026

Unlimited IOPS helped Sazabi cut a 5 figure bill to $500 on PlanetScale Metal. Sazabi is an AI native observability platform powering companies like Mastra, Weave, and Sandstone. Here's Sherwood Callaway telling @samlambert.com his migration story.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 27/07/2026

You can't manage what you can't measure. View detailed graphs for any available query metric in Insights: CPU time, blocks read/written, cache hit ratio, and more.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 15/07/2026

Sharding is how you scale relational databases. Bottlenecks like server write limits, data size, and slow backups mean eventually, your data should live on multiple servers. Learn how we do this at PlanetScale with Neki and Vitess in our latest blog.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 29/05/2026

Always bet on JavaScript.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 26/05/2026

At scale, you can only put off sharding for so long. YouTube scaled MySQL with Vitess, and now we're building the same for Postgres.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 19/05/2026

If you’re not careful, ingress (free) can become egress (not free). Double-check your agents work, they could quietly be costing you money.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 13/05/2026

82,000x database performance improvement? A single index can do that, and PlanetScale Insights can tell you where.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 07/05/2026

It's easy to introduce slow queries into your workload. Tracking them down should be easy too. PlanetScale Insights shows you which queries are slow and why. Combined with our MCP server, you can automate fixing them.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 05/05/2026

Most database benchmarks are bad. The problems are often subtle. Mismatched instances, cold caches, and coordinated omission all produce misleading results. Today, we’re publishing guidance on how to do it right, and updating our acceptable use policy to allow benchmarking.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 04/05/2026

pgvectorscale augments pgvector with StreamingDiskANN, making larger-than-RAM vector indexes achievable in Postgres. It also adds statistical binary quantization for improved search recall over regular quantization. PlanetScale supports both. Try them today.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 30/04/2026

Postgres RLS sounds great in theory: embedded access control right in the database. In practice, there's complexity in policy configuration, managing your attack surface, and performance implications. Our latest article takes a deep dive into RLS.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 21/04/2026

Postgres has three ways to isolate tenants: - Logical databases - Per-tenant schemas - Tenant ID in a shared schema Counterintuitively, the last is the best way to scale. Read about why in our latest article.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 15/04/2026

Sharding is the best way to scale a database. But how does it work? And what's the best way to ensure data and queries are evenly distributed? Our interactive article on database sharding teaches you how.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 14/04/2026

pgcopydb is the best way to migrate to PlanetScale Postgres. We've used it to move multi-TB databases at speeds over 2 TB/hr. PlanetScale's custom fork adds PG 17/18 support, better CDC, and resilient retry.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 10/04/2026

Postgres wasn't designed as a job queue, but many apps use it as one right alongside analytics, OLTP, and everything else. Our latest blog goes deep on what to be aware of when doing this and how the situation has improved for Postgres over time.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 01/04/2026

Traffic Control lets you limit how much of your Postgres compute resources any one workload can consume. You can warn, block, or do a mixture of both when queries exceed these limits.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 24/03/2026

🧢 Stop by the PlanetScale booth if you're at SREcon for PlanetScale credits, hats, stickers, and great conversations about databases.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 24/03/2026

Query Insights just got way more powerful. We now track tag metadata at the per-query level. This allows you to filter queries by tag, see per-tag performance breakdowns, and set resource budgets with Traffic Control.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 13/03/2026

Postgres has a problem: connections. PgBouncer is the solution, but it's not so simple. We've got the guide for how to optimize your connections for any database size.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 11/03/2026

The PlanetScale plugin for Cursor is a huge unlock for database productivity. Discover and apply schema recommendations, improve query performance, and work with your data in natural language.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 02/03/2026

PlanetScale is now in the Cursor plugin marketplace. Get our MCP + skills with just a few clicks.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 26/02/2026

The PlanetScale MCP server is now available as a Claude Connector. Add now to Claude Desktop or Claude Web to query your database, get performance insights, and generate organizational reports.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 10/02/2026

Quality of life improvement: new database list view in your dashboard.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 27/01/2026

Need Postgres connection pooling? PlanetScale has three PgBouncer options: - Local: co-located with the primary Postgres instance - Dedicated primary: runs on separate infrastructure, good for pooling + HA - Dedicated replica: pooling for your replica queries

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 14/01/2026

Trillions of Postgres and MySQL transactions execute every day. They're at the heart of why relational databases are relied upon by the world's largest applications. Learn all about how they work in our latest article.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 13/01/2026

"Systems were going down every day." Intercom's Ryan Sherlock walks through their entire database journey: MySQL, Aurora, ProxySQL, and why they ultimately chose PlanetScale.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 12/01/2026

PlanetScale Postgres + @drizzle.team ORM 🤝 New connection guide is live orm.drizzle.team/docs/connect...

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 19/12/2025

Looking for last minute gift ideas for $50 or less? Give the gift of blazing fast NVMe drives. It's been a busy week of shipping ⬇️

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 18/12/2025

We've upgraded the import experience for Vitess databases. You can now monitor per-table progress, replication lag, and perform data verification as a part of your migration to PlanetScale.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 16/12/2025

Analytics queries running slow? PlanetScale now supports pg_duckdb and integrates with the MotherDuck cloud, making your OLAP workloads lightning-fast.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 12/12/2025

PlanetScale Postgres keeps getting better! Single-node databases, primary PgBouncers, intelligent Insights improvements, and more. Check out what we've shipped ⬇️

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 11/12/2025

Want better database observability? PlanetScale has Prometheus-compatible metrics exporters for both Vitess and Postgres. This plugs right in with tools you already know: Grafana, Datadog, and other popular monitoring platforms.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 10/12/2025

PlanetScale Insights shows you how queries perform, now also find out what they do. Get a plain-language summary for any query. Available now in the Insights dashboard.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 09/12/2025

We've added metric groups to the Insights dashboard. This makes it easier to navigate your queries and quickly identify the ones consuming too many resources or executing slowly.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 24/11/2025

Shared-nothing is the best way to scale a relational database. Nick Van Wiggeren spoke at P99 CONF about how PlanetScale operates massive, high-performance Vitess databases.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 20/11/2025

The fastest cloud Postgres combined with world-class monitoring tools.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 19/11/2025

Stop by the PlanetScale booth at @sfruby.com to meet the team + get a hat and some free PlanetScale credits. You can find us right outside the main stage room.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 12/11/2025

Day 2 of KubeCon. Come by booth 643 for a Vitess or Postgres demo!

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 06/11/2025

You can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas. This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 04/11/2025

We just shipped IP restrictions for PlanetScale Postgres databases. You can now restrict connections to specific IP ranges. Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 16/10/2025

PlanetScale Metal continuously comes out on top compared to other cloud database providers. Unlike other options w/ local NVMe drives, PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, not our own data centers. This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 15/10/2025

We've added 5 new columns to Insights for Postgres databases. These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance. Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...

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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 14/10/2025

Postgres 17 vs 18. How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance? Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.

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