Engineering Insights

PlanetScale on Vitess

We have all experienced the limitations of the relational model and the operational burden of running a large fleet of databases. At PlanetScale, our vision is to build a database developers love without compromising on any of the database features required to run an application that can scale up as needed. To achieve this, we knew we needed a database engine with a track record of powering companies that deal with humongous amounts of data and traffic. That’s why we chose Vitess. The Power (and

Sam Lambert appointed new CEO of PlanetScale

It is with great pleasure that I announce that I have made the decision to transition the role of Chief Executive Officer of PlanetScale to Sam Lambert. I will still be deeply involved in the company as the Chief Strategy Officer, and will also continue to serve on the board. Sam joined PlanetScale as Chief Product Officer nine months ago at a pivotal time for the company, as we began the transition from the hosted Vitess platform that served as our foundation to the developer-experience-focused

Deep Learning over the Internet: Training Language Models Collaboratively

Node.js 16.5.0 (Current)

Announcing Preview Support for MongoDB in Prisma 2.27

Prisma support for MongoDB - bringing the power of type safety in Prisma to MongoDB

The promises and realities of the relational database model

The relational model — tables with a predefined set of typed columns and with cross table references — is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science and in real life deployments. It’s rare to see models that survive decades of software evolution. This survival suggests that the model is sensible, practical, and solid. The relational model makes sense as we organize our data into elements and their properties, and how we associate different elements with each other. Along comes SQL, a

Welcome spaCy to the Hugging Face Hub

What's new in Prisma? (Q2/2021)

Learn about everything that has happened in the Prisma ecosystem and community from April to June 2021.