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Zero downtime Laravel migrations

PlanetScale allows you to branch your database in the same way you branch your code. Throughout this article, we discuss both database branches and application code branches. For clarity, we’ll refer to PlanetScale database branches as "PlanetScale branches" and branches for your application code as "code branches". The problem with running migrations at deployment In many Laravel workflows, your deployment script includes php artisan migrate, which runs your new migrations on your production da

How SZA and Integral Studio create at the moment of inspiration

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End-To-End Type-Safety with GraphQL, Prisma & React: GraphQL API

Learn how to build a fully type-safe application with GraphQL, Prisma, and React. This article walks you through building a type-safe GraphQL API

When Culture and Code Reviews Collide, Communication is Key

Introducing support for WebAssembly at the Edge

We've been working to make it easier for every developer to build at the Edge, without complicated setup or changes to their workflow. Now, with support for WebAssembly in Vercel Edge Functions, we've made it possible to compile and run Vercel Edge Functions with languages like Rust, Go, C, and more. Read more

Run SQL script files on a PlanetScale database

If you’ve ever had a large number of commands you need to run against a MySQL database, having to manually type them into the client of your choice can be a bit of a pain. Luckily, using the PlanetScale CLI, you can easily batch commands to your PlanetScale database using script files on your local dev computer! In this guide, I’ll show you how to create an empty database and populate it with data using a sql script file. Before you follow along, please make sure you have the following: A Planet

Shopify Data’s Guide To Opportunity Sizing

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