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Introducing the Private Hub: A New Way to Build With Machine Learning

Mastering React’s Stable Values

How PlanetScale prevents MySQL downtime

The cost of downtime can range from loss of business to severe reputation damage. Database downtime feels inevitable but is often preventable. The causes of database issues that lead to downtime can be categorized in the following ways: Human error System immaturity Application issues In this post, we will explore how PlanetScale can mitigate all three. Downtime due to human error We’ve all done it, dropped the wrong table or index and caused queries to dramatically slow or fail. This can lead t

Nyströmformer: Approximating self-attention in linear time and memory via the Nyström method

Ruby on Rails: 3 tips for deleting data at scale

We’ve seen that as Rails applications grow, there are a few common issues that teams run into with deleting data. In this post, you’ll learn a few strategies you can use to mitigate the risks of cleaning up data on a high scale Rails application. How Rails deletes associated data Rails applications at scale generally run into issues when deleting many records at once. This happens most commonly in models with many associations. The standard way to delete associated data in Rails is to let Active

Comments on U.S. National AI Research Resource Interim Report

Database access on the Edge with Next.js, Vercel & Prisma Accelerate

Learn how you can query databases in Edge environments using Prisma and the Prisma Accelerate.

10 Tips for Building Resilient Payment Systems