Engineering Insights

May 2020

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Protecting Deployments

Pushing a change to your project results in a Preview Deployment. Then, once you're ready, merging it into results in a Production Deployment with the domain of your choice.master Even though Preview Deployments receive a unique URL, they might still be accessed by anyone that finds out about the URL. Today, we're introducing two features for easily protecting them right from the Dashboard. Read more

Node.js 13.14.0 (Current)

Jukebox

We’re introducing Jukebox, a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles. We’re releasing the model weights and code, along with a tool to explore the generated samples.

Node.js 14.1.0 (Current)

Announcing Vitess 6

I am excited to announce the general availability of Vitess 6, the second release to follow our new accelerated release schedule. While only 12 weeks have elapsed since the previous release, it feels like a few key investments have started to pay dividends all at once. To provide some personal highlights: Improved SQL Support Vitess now understands much more of MySQL’s syntax. We have taken the approach of studying the queries issued by common applications and frameworks, and baking them right i

ACID Transactions are not just for banks — the Vitess approach

The outdated example of transferring money from account A to account B needs to be updated for today's emerging applications. Vitess provides an answer. Remember the early 2000s world of Office Space? Java was still new, usenet passed for social media, and applications were using proprietary Sun hardware with Oracle databases. Then the tech bubble burst, and in that time of frugality, companies shifted to using commodity hardware with open source databases. In many cases, the database of choice

Node.js 12.16.3 (LTS)