Engineering Insights

Announcing Teams: An easier way to manage database administrator access

When it comes to something as important as database access, we believe you should have all of the tools necessary to control who and what can access your data. Today, we're announcing Teams, an easier way to manage database administrator access within your PlanetScale organization. What are Teams? With Teams, you can create groups within your organization, add members, and assign them administrator access to one or more databases. You still have the option to add administrators to a database di

DALL·E now available in beta

We’ll invite 1 million people from our waitlist over the coming weeks. Users can create with DALL·E using free credits that refill every month, and buy additional credits in 115-generation increments for $15.

Prisma announces the Prisma FOSS Fund to support free and open source software teams.

Prisma has started a fund to support independent free and open source software (FOSS) teams. Each month, we will donate $5,000 to a selected project to maintain its work and continue its development.

We now display PlanetScale system status directly in your dashboard

For most of our customers, their database is the most critical piece of their infrastructure. On the rare occasion an issue comes up, the more information, the better. We recently shipped an improvement to the database page to make it easy to find out if there are any issues with PlanetScale itself. Any time there’s an update to our status page, you’ll now also see it in the UI as well. How we built it The PlanetScale dashboard is a Next.js app backed by a Ruby on Rails API. We felt this would

Learn how to add Input Validation to a REST API with NestJS and Prisma

Learn how to build a backend REST API with NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL and Swagger. In this article, you will learn how to perform input validation and transformation for your API.

Sponsored Post: G-Core Labs, Close, Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and develop

Reducing bias and improving safety in DALL·E 2

Today, we are implementing a new technique so that DALL·E generates images of people that more accurately reflect the diversity of the world’s population.

How to train your model dynamically using adversarial data