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November 14, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

A guide to HTML email with Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS

Learn how to build HTML emails using Rails and Tailwind CSS. We also cover how to overcome some common obstacles such as Gmail message clipping, large file size, Apple autolinking, and more.

November 13, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

Sharding for cost-effective database management

Maximizing performance while minimizing costs is integral for engineering large-scale applications with massive data volumes. Learn more about cost-effective sharding in this tech talk.

November 12, 2023

ParadeDB Blog

Similarity Search with SPLADE Inside Postgres

Introducing pg_sparse, a Postgres extension for sparse vector search

by Ming Ying

November 08, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

PlanetScale ranks 188th in Deloitte’s top 500 fastest-growing companies

We are pleased to announce that PlanetScale has been named on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™.

November 07, 2023

PlanetScale Blog

Announcing Vitess 18

Vitess 18 is now generally available, with a number of new enhancements designed to improve usability, performance, and MySQL compatibility.

Vitess Blog

Vitess 18 is now Generally Available, with a number of new enhancements designed to improve usability, performance and MySQL compatibility. MySQL Compatibility Improvements # Foreign Keys # In the past, foreign keys had to be managed outside Vitess. This was a significant blocker for adoption. We are now able to support Vitess-managed foreign keys within the same shard. This includes the ability to import data into Vitess from an existing MySQL database with foreign keys.

November 06, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

Build a real-time dashboard in Python with Tinybird and Dash

Want to build a real-time dashboard with Python? Here's a step-by-step guide with included code that shows you how.

Hack MySQL

The Future of MySQL Schema Change: Spirit

Using pt-online-schema or gh-ost? Of course you are; everyone in the MySQL industry does. But now there’s a new online schema change tool that will obsolete these two: Spirit by renowned MySQL expert Morgan Tocker.

by Daniel Nichter

Supabase Blog

Supabase Beta October 2023

Brand-new features, community content, and (more importantly) the date for our next Launch Week.

November 03, 2023

Tinybird Engineering Blog

What are columnar databases? Here are 35 examples.

New to columnar databases? Read this article to learn what a columnar database is, when to use it, and popular examples of columnar databases.