Engineering Insights

TAOBench: Running social media workloads on PlanetScale

As PlanetScale expands its customer base, our Tech Solutions team often gets to collaborate with companies trying to evaluate whether PlanetScale fits their existing development stack’s requirements. Understanding the impact of database performance and how it relates to an application’s overall performance profile can be a complicated exercise, so being able to reference standardized benchmark workloads can be helpful to build a deeper understanding of what to expect. Last week, we published a f

Next.js 12.3

Next.js 12.3 introduces TypeScript Auto-Install, improved Fast Refresh, stable new Image Component, and more!

Node.js 18.9.0 (Current)

Train your first Decision Transformer

How to train a Language Model with Megatron-LM

Gated Deployments: addressing the complexity of schema deployments at scale

Today we introduce Gated Schema Deployments, which help us think of schema changes as more of atomic operations, solve the complexity of making changes across a sharded database, and answer one of the most common requests from our users. Let’s first understand what the deployment complexity is. PlanetScale already offers non-blocking schema changes. You make some schema changes in your development branch, you submit a deployment request, it gets approved, and each change is then applied, non-int

Improving query performance with database indexes using Prisma: Introduction

Learn the fundamentals of database indexes: what they are, the problem they solve, and their benefit and cost

Monitor Your Server with Tracing Using OpenTelemetry & Prisma

This tutorial will help you to get started with Prisma's tracing feature and OpenTelemetry in Node.js. Learn how to integrate tracing and OpenTelemetry into a web server built with Express and Prisma.