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Using the PlanetScale serverless driver with AWS Lambda functions

Overview We recently released the PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript to allow developers to connect to their databases over HTTP, as opposed to TCP, which is blocked by some cloud providers. This guide will walk you through the most common use cases of the driver while building a serverless API on AWS using a Lambda function and API Gateway. To follow along, you’ll need: A PlanetScale account. An AWS account. NodeJS installed. VS Code and the VS Code Rest Client plugin installed. Pleas

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Declarative MySQL schemas with Atlas CLI

Overview One of the best things the DevOps movement has ushered in is the concept of Infrastructure as Code. IaC lets you define your infrastructure in specially formatted files, and allows you to use automation tools to create or modify your infrastructure based on those files. But did you know that you can also manage your database schemas in a similar approach? Atlas CLI is a command line tool that helps manage the structure of your database by keeping a representation of the schema in a file

Improving query performance with database indexes using Prisma: B-tree indexes

Learn how you can optimize a slow database query in your application with a B-Tree index using Prisma

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September 23rd 2022 Security Releases

Next.js Layouts RFC in 5 minutes

The Next.js team at Vercel released the a few months ago outlining the vision for the future of routing, layouts, and data fetching in the framework. The RFC is detailed and covers both basic and advanced features.Layouts RFC This post will cover the most important features of the upcoming Next.js changes landing in the next major version that you should be aware of. Read more

Build a multi-stage pipeline with PlanetScale and AWS

One of the foundational features of PlanetScale is the concept of branching — creating an isolated version of your production database to test schema changes before applying them to a production instance. Through the power of our CLI and some scripting, you can also automate the process of merging those changes and integrate it into your CI/CD pipelines. In this article, we’ll step through creating a multi-environment pipeline powered by PlanetScale and AWS, triggered by a common developer flow