Engineering Insights

How PlanetScale keeps your data safe

Keeping data safe and durable should be a top priority for any business that depends on databases to store and manage critical information. At PlanetScale we take data safety extremely seriously. In this post, we will walk you through our multi-layered approach to ensure your data is safe. Vitess and MySQL Whenever you create a database on PlanetScale you are actually creating a complete Vitess cluster. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system that enhances the scalability and managea

Expanding the experimentation ecosystem with Edge Config and LaunchDarkly

We're excited to announce a new to bring low latency, global feature flags to your favorite .LaunchDarkly integrationfrontend framework Feature flags help your team safely release new code and experiment with changes. helps you instantly read configuration data globally, making it a perfect match for feature flag and experimentation data.Vercel Edge Config Read more

Announcing Vitess 17

GA announcements The VTTablet settings connection pool feature, introduced in v15, is now enabled by default in this release. This feature simplifies the management and configuration of system settings, providing users with a more streamlined and convenient experience. The new Topology Service-based Tablet Throttler (also known as lag throttler) is now GA and enabled by default. MySQL compatibility improvements Vitess now supports additional statements such as Prepare, Execute, and Deallocate al

Ethics and Society Newsletter #4: Bias in Text-to-Image Models

Incrementally adopting Next.js at one of Europe's fastest growing brands

While , pioneers of the next-generation paper tablet, can credit much of their initial success to their original website, they knew they’d need to improve key elements of their stack and workflow to reach new heights. The team opted for a composable stack—comprised of , Next.js, and Vercel—to meet the needs of their developers while empowering their content creators to deliver truly delightful digital experiences.reMarkableSanity Read more

What's going on with the Open LLM Leaderboard?

Next.js App Router Update

The Next.js team is focused on performance, stability, and developer experience for the upcoming months.

An Introduction to Streaming on the Web

The ability to process data as it streams has always been a fundamental concept in computer science. JavaScript developers had access to streaming through , but it wasn't until 2015 that it was accessible natively through the Fetch API.XMLHttpRequest provide a standardized way to continuously send or receive data asynchronously across network connections. They bring the power of streaming to the web, enabling developers to handle large data sets through "chunks", deal with congestion control ()