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PlanetScale Metal: There’s no replacement for displacement

Announcing PlanetScale Metal Metal is the latest iteration of PlanetScale’s scalable cloud OLTP database platform powered by Vitess (MySQL-compatible) and Postgres, and now by fast, local NVMe drives that offer effectively unlimited IOPS to ensure your database is screaming fast, especially when your data doesn’t fit in RAM. Typical PlanetScale Metal configurations are cost-neutral or less expensive than equivalent PlanetScale or Amazon Aurora configurations.When you consider the performance you

Upgrading Query Insights to Metal

Since PlanetScale Metal is now generally available, I wanted to share a post describing our experience migrating the PlanetScale database that powers the Query Insights feature to Metal. Data collection in Query Insights First, a bit about how we collect the data for Query Insights. The basic steps are: Collect query-pattern telemetry from the Vitess layer of your PlanetScale database Publish the data to Kafka Consume the data from Kafka and write to several MySQL tables, aggregated by time. The

Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models

Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. We show we can detect exploits using an LLM to monitor their chains-of-thought. Penalizing their “bad thoughts” doesn’t stop the majority of misbehavior—it makes them hide their intent.

WAF - WAF Release - 2025-03-10

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Updates on CVE for End-of-Life Versions

Increased Hobby usage limits for Image Optimization

We've increased Image Optimization included usage for Hobby teams: Learn more about and its recent .Image Optimization pricingrecent price reduction Read more from 3K to 5K per monthImage Transformations: from 180K to 300K per monthImage Cache Reads: from 60K to 100K per monthImage Cache Writes:

Personalization strategies that power ecommerce growth

Personalization works best when it’s intentional. Rushing into it without the right approach can lead to higher costs, slower performance, and poor user experience. The key is to implement incrementally, with the right tools, while maintaining performance. When personalization is implemented effectively, it drives real business results, returning and . $20 for every $1 spentdriving 40% more revenue Let's look at what personalization is, how to implement it correctly, and why Next.js and Vercel a

Nubank elevates customer experiences with OpenAI

Nubank elevates customer experiences with OpenAI