Engineering Insights

Sharding vs. partitioning: What’s the difference?

Sharding and partitioning are techniques to divide and scale large databases. Sharding distributes data across multiple servers, while partitioning splits tables within one server. Database sharding and partitioning Partitioning and sharding are two common ways to improve performance, manageability, and availability of larger databases. You need to understand the differences between the two solutions in order to determine the most appropriate approach for your database architecture. What is shar

Introduction to PlanetScale

Insights from global conversations

We are sharing what we learned from our conversations across 22 countries, and how we will be incorporating those insights moving forward.

Accelerating Vision-Language Models: BridgeTower on Habana Gaudi2

Introducing OpenAI London

We are excited to announce OpenAI’s first international expansion with a new office in London, United Kingdom.

How PlanetScale keeps your data safe

Keeping data safe and durable should be a top priority for any business that depends on databases to store and manage critical information. At PlanetScale we take data safety extremely seriously. In this post, we will walk you through our multi-layered approach to ensure your data is safe. Vitess and MySQL Whenever you create a database on PlanetScale you are actually creating a complete Vitess cluster. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system that enhances the scalability and managea

Expanding the experimentation ecosystem with Edge Config and LaunchDarkly

We're excited to announce a new to bring low latency, global feature flags to your favorite .LaunchDarkly integrationfrontend framework Feature flags help your team safely release new code and experiment with changes. helps you instantly read configuration data globally, making it a perfect match for feature flag and experimentation data.Vercel Edge Config Read more

Announcing Vitess 17

GA announcements The VTTablet settings connection pool feature, introduced in v15, is now enabled by default in this release. This feature simplifies the management and configuration of system settings, providing users with a more streamlined and convenient experience. The new Topology Service-based Tablet Throttler (also known as lag throttler) is now GA and enabled by default. MySQL compatibility improvements Vitess now supports additional statements such as Prepare, Execute, and Deallocate al