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Horizontal sharding for MySQL made easy

For developers building out an application, a transactional datastore is the obvious and proven choice, but with success comes scale limitations. A monolithic database works well initially, but as an application sees growth, the size of its data will eventually grow beyond what is optimal for a single server. Implementing read replicas can improve your performance but will likely add lag between your primary and your replicas, leading to performance or correctness issues for your application. Th

Teaching with AI

We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom—including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias.

Why all application migrations should be incremental

In 2023, there are few software projects that are true greenfield endeavors. Instead, migrations of existing systems are the new normal. Migrations done wrong can introduce substantial business and timeline risks into any software project. An incremental migration strategy can minimize those risks while pulling forward validation of business impact. Vercel’s product is designed to support incremental migration from the ground up. In this post you'll get a high-level overview of incremental migra

AudioLDM 2, but faster ⚡️

Deploying multiple schema changes at once

PlanetScale's database branching uses a declarative schema approach, but we take it even further and treat all the changes in your branch as a single deployment. As much as possible, PlanetScale deploys your entire set of changes near-atomically, which means the production database schema remains stable throughout the deployment process and changes almost all at once when all changes are ready. In this post, we will discuss the benefits of atomic multi-change deployments and work through the tec

Introducing ChatGPT Enterprise

Get enterprise-grade security & privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.

Code Llama: Llama 2 learns to code

Deprecation of Git Authentication using password