How do you avoid cross-shard queries?

Tutorial: Horizontal sharding with PlanetScale

What's new in Vitess 21?

Using vector search in MySQL

What are vector embeddings? PlanetScale vector search open beta.

How we do PoCs with customers (Proof of Concept)

Are my indexes being used? Let's find out.

Take a walk through the PlanetScale dashboard

Megabytes to Petabytes: the journey of scaling a database

Case Study: Interview with Brian Anglin (Superwall)

Use Slack? Get PlanetScale updates with webhooks.

Vitess at Demonware

Case Study: Interview with Steven Tey (Dub)

How HubSpot Achieves MySQL High Availability with Vitess

What's new in Vitess 20?

Sharding strategies: lookup-based, range-based, and hash-based

Learn Vitess - Vitess at PlanetScale (part 9)

Learn Vitess - Vitess on Kubernetes (part 8)

Learn Vitess - Sharding on Multiple Machines (part 7)

Learn Vitess - Multiple Machines (part 6)

Learn Vitess - Horizontal Sharding (part 5)

Learn Vitess - Vertical Sharding (part 4)

Learn Vitess - Components of a Vitess Cluster (part 3)

Learn Vitess - Build and Run Vitess (part 2)

Learn Vitess - Introduction (part 1)

Working with Strings in MySQL (four functions)

How do online schema change tools work?

Slow database? Replicas are here to help.

Speed up your MySQL database with the buffer pool

How Vitess powers your PlanetScale database

Bad Schema? Improve it with this tool.

Creating a 100 gigabyte index on 1 billion+ rows

Watch me 100x a SQL query

Increase speed and durability with MySQL replication (2 easy ways)

Write a Figma plugin that connects to MySQL

I loaded 100,000,000 rows into MySQL (fast)

Working with time series data in MySQL

Database Sharding in 200 Seconds

Two new MySQL expressions

RAND is too slow (in MySQL)

Faster than a regular database index

How I add millions of rows to MySQL (for performance testing)

Many to many relationships in MySQL

You don't always need JOINs

Saving a SaaS on the weekend

Storing feature flags as JSON (with indexing)

Store 8 feature flags in 1 integer (Bitwise operations in MySQL)

You don't need NoSQL (use MySQL)

Easy database indexing strategies

Using MySQL to stop freeloaders (in only 8 minutes)

I love my database GUI

Your database will break in 2038 (or sooner)

Database enums are weird

INT(11) is a lie

Faster database indexes (straight from the docs)

Database Branching Deep Dive

Faster geospatial queries in MySQL

Pagination in MySQL - offset vs. cursor

Stop using COUNT(id) to count rows

Automate schema changes with PlanetScale and GitHub Actions