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14 May 2026 18:41 +0000

Egress costs are an annoying reality of AWS and GCP. But there are ways to minimize the pain while also getting more out of your database. New post on how to send less data, save money, and make your apps faster: https://planetscale.com/blog/database-egress

13 May 2026 18:52 +0000

82,000x database performance improvement? A single index can do that, and PlanetScale Insights can tell you where.

07 May 2026 17:05 +0000

It's easy to introduce slow queries into your workload. Tracking them down should be easy too. PlanetScale Insights shows you which queries are slow and why. Combined with our MCP server, you can automate fixing them.

05 May 2026 17:00 +0000

Most database benchmarks are bad. The problems are often subtle. Mismatched instances, cold caches, and coordinated omission all produce misleading results. Today, we’re publishing guidance on how to do it right, and updating our acceptable use policy to allow benchmarking.

04 May 2026 17:09 +0000

pgvectorscale augments pgvector with StreamingDiskANN, making larger-than-RAM vector indexes achievable in Postgres. It also adds statistical binary quantization for improved search recall over regular quantization. PlanetScale supports both. Try them today.

30 Apr 2026 16:48 +0000

Postgres RLS sounds great in theory: embedded access control right in the database. In practice, there's complexity in policy configuration, managing your attack surface, and performance implications. Our latest article takes a deep dive into RLS.

21 Apr 2026 17:35 +0000

Postgres has three ways to isolate tenants: - Logical databases - Per-tenant schemas - Tenant ID in a shared schema Counterintuitively, the last is the best way to scale. Read about why in our latest article.

20 Apr 2026 19:00 +0000

Autumn migrated to PlanetScale and got: - Query latency reduction from ~100ms to < 10ms - Support and tooling to identify + fix slow queries - Significant decrease in CPU usage - Connection scalability Read about their migration: pscale.link/autumn-to-ps https://pscale.link/autumn-to-ps

15 Apr 2026 17:43 +0000

Sharding is the best way to scale a database. But how does it work? And what's the best way to ensure data and queries are evenly distributed? Our interactive article on database sharding teaches you how.

14 Apr 2026 16:14 +0000

pgcopydb is the best way to migrate to PlanetScale Postgres. We've used it to move multi-TB databases at speeds over 2 TB/hr. PlanetScale's custom fork adds PG 17/18 support, better CDC, and resilient retry.

10 Apr 2026 17:27 +0000

Postgres wasn't designed as a job queue, but many apps use it as one right alongside analytics, OLTP, and everything else. Our latest blog goes deep on what to be aware of when doing this and how the situation has improved for Postgres over time.

02 Apr 2026 18:07 +0000

How do you build applications to get the most out of Traffic Control? Our latest article covers patterns for categorizing, tagging, and budgeting your Postgres queries. https://planetscale.com/blog/patterns-for-postgres-traffic-control

01 Apr 2026 18:36 +0000

Traffic Control lets you limit how much of your Postgres compute resources any one workload can consume. You can warn, block, or do a mixture of both when queries exceed these limits.

30 Mar 2026 18:47 +0000

Postgres is using 80% of RAM, and that's a good thing. But what's it actually doing with all that memory? At what point should you take action to mitigate usage? Our latest blog breaks it down. https://planetscale.com/blog/high-memory-usage-in-postgres-is-good-actually

26 Mar 2026 16:52 +0000

We're excited to share we're partnering with Stripe as part of their Stripe Projects developer preview. Create & manage PlanetScale Postgres + Vitess databases straight from the Stripe CLI. All of your dev tool provisioning and billing now centralized in one place. https://planetscale.com/blog/planetscale-stripe-projects-partnership

24 Mar 2026 20:30 +0000

🧢 Stop by the PlanetScale booth if you're at SREcon for PlanetScale credits, hats, stickers, and great conversations about databases.

24 Mar 2026 16:50 +0000

Query Insights just got way more powerful. We now track tag metadata at the per-query level. This allows you to filter queries by tag, see per-tag performance breakdowns, and set resource budgets with Traffic Control.

23 Mar 2026 15:58 +0000

Introducing Database Traffic Control: a Postgres traffic management system built into PlanetScale. Enforce flexible budgets on your database traffic to protect against unexpected and dangerous workloads. https://planetscale.com/blog/introducing-database-traffic-control

20 Mar 2026 16:27 +0000

📅 Meet us at KubeCon EU next week! Our Neki, Vitess, and Solutions teams are on-site for demos, architecture deep dives, and to answer all your scaling questions. Request a meeting: https://planetscale.com/meet-us-at-kubecon-eu

17 Mar 2026 15:42 +0000

Want to learn how to build Postgres extensions in Rust? Our very own @piki.dev is doing a deep dive on pgrx at the Raleigh Triangle Postgres Users Group on March 24th, 5:30pm EDT. Free food and great discussions. RSVP here: https://www.meetup.com/triangle-postgres-users-group/events/313394033/

13 Mar 2026 15:26 +0000

Postgres has a problem: connections. PgBouncer is the solution, but it's not so simple. We've got the guide for how to optimize your connections for any database size.

11 Mar 2026 20:47 +0000

The PlanetScale plugin for Cursor is a huge unlock for database productivity. Discover and apply schema recommendations, improve query performance, and work with your data in natural language.

09 Mar 2026 18:49 +0000

We've been shipping: - New Terraform provider for Postgres + Vitess - Reduced pricing for traffic over private connections - New region: gcp-us-east1 And much more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIjtRoQtp9w

04 Mar 2026 19:05 +0000

"If I took Bugbot away from our engineering team, there would be a mutiny." How PlanetScale builds with Bugbot: https://cursor.com/blog/planetscale

03 Mar 2026 15:38 +0000

We're excited to announce Drizzle is joining PlanetScale! https://planetscale.com/blog/drizzle-joins-planetscale

02 Mar 2026 16:32 +0000

PlanetScale is now in the Cursor plugin marketplace. Get our MCP + skills with just a few clicks.

27 Feb 2026 17:07 +0000

Ever wanted a Postgres-powered zoom call? No? Well, here it is. https://planetscale.com/blog/video-conferencing-with-postgres

26 Feb 2026 17:40 +0000

The PlanetScale MCP server is now available as a Claude Connector. Add now to Claude Desktop or Claude Web to query your database, get performance insights, and generate organizational reports.

24 Feb 2026 17:58 +0000

Join us tonight alongside the @convex and @tryprofound teams for a laid-back happy hour with other builders, founders, and engineers. 🍸 Private bartender and curated drinks 🍽️ Great food 🤝 Amazing conversations 6pm at the Convex office. RSVP here: luma.com/7aky03zl https://luma.com/7aky03zl