Engineering Insights

Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers.

Every one of us at PlanetScale is deeply unsatisfied by the current state of “modern” databases. We’ve worked at companies like YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, DigitalOcean, and GitHub, always focused on solving the same problem — database scaling. We’ve seen the same sad pattern repeat year after year. Companies pick a stack on day 1 that optimizes for developer velocity to get that MVP out the door. After they see some success, years 3 or 4 are spent paying down immense technical debt — mostly due

Node.js 14.17.0 (LTS)

OpenAI Scholars 2021: Final projects

We’re proud to announce that the 2021 class of OpenAI Scholars has completed our six-month mentorship program and have produced an open-source research project with stipends and support from OpenAI.

How Grover Moves Faster and is More Productive with Prisma

Grover has many individual development teams that each work in slightly different stacks. Prisma is catching on as a way to help their teams move faster and be more confident in their code.

Learn 5 Tools for Documenting Web APIs

Explore five tools and approaches for documenting web APIs so teams can ship clearer, more usable developer experiences.

Node.js 16.1.0 (Current)

Will Hurd joins OpenAI’s board of directors

OpenAI is committed to developing general-purpose artificial intelligence that benefits all humanity, and we believe that achieving our goal requires expertise in public policy as well as technology. So, we’re delighted to announce that Congressman Will Hurd has joined our board of directors.

Next.js 10.2

Next.js 10.2 introduces performance improvements (faster builds, refresh, and startup), improved accessibility, Automatic Webfont Optimization, and more!