Engineering Insights

Node.js 14.17.6 (LTS)

Node.js 12.22.6 (LTS)

NoneSQL All the DevEx

MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Spanner; there has literally never been a better time to be a database user at any level of complexity or scale. But there’s still one common thread (ha!) among them – the focus is on infrastructure, not developer experience. This post is going to argue that database internals are going to matter less long term; developer experience is what will differentiate offerings. Most database products today focus on internals To get some perspective on the shift happening in dat

Node.js 16.8.0 (Current)

Automatically copy migration data in PlanetScale branches

Never accidentally reapply a past migration again! We've removed another barrier to using PlanetScale branches with the framework or migration tool of your choice. Now, you can automatically persist schema changes in your migration table across database branches. Many frameworks and migration tools keep track of database schema changes in a migration table that includes data about what migrations have been applied and in what order. Without that migrations table data, many tools will incorrectly

Building PlanetScale with PlanetScale

Our mission at PlanetScale is to build the best database for developers, so of course we’ve been using PlanetScale as our primary database since we started. We have high standards for our development workflow and velocity, and we know our customers expect the same. Simply put, if it’s not good enough for us, it won’t be good enough for you. This blog post will talk about how we leverage features like branching and non-blocking schema changes to constantly ship new features to our users. Our loca

Node.js 16.7.0 (Current)

Fullstack app with TypeScript, Next.js, Prisma & GraphQL

Build a fullstack app using TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Next.js, GraphQL and Prisma. In this article we're going to create the app's data model