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PlanetScale Blog

One million queries per second with MySQL

Knowing your database can scale provides great peace of mind. We built PlanetScale on top of Vitess so that we could harness its ability to massively scale. One of the core strengths in our ability to scale is horizontal sharding. To demonstrate the power of horizontal sharding, we decided to run some benchmarking. We set up a PlanetScale database and started running some benchmarks with a common tpc-c sysbench workload. We weren’t aiming for a rigorous academic benchmark here, but we wanted to

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PlanetScale Blog

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

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