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.

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. planetscale.com/blog/high-me...

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. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

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

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.

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. planetscale.com/blog/introdu...

📅 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: planetscale.com/meet-us-at-k...

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: www.meetup.com/triangle-pos...

We are throwing a party with @PostHog & @PlanetScale @ KubeCon Amsterdam! If you want to join us for tacos, sliders, an open bar, and great company check out the link in 🧵. When? Wednesday, March 25th | 6:30pm-9:30pm Where? The Harbour Club | Amsterdam, Zuid

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.

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.

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIjt...

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

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

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

Ever wanted a Postgres-powered zoom call? No? Well, here it is. planetscale.com/blog/video-c...

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.

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

Tono migrated from RDS Postgres to PlanetScale. This gave them: - Indexing insights, leading to material performance improvement - Isolated branching for preview environments and schema changes - Significantly lower query latency - Cost reduction pscale.link/tono

Vitalize migrated to PlanetScale and saw: - P95 latency dropped to 2ms - Heavy JSONB reads dropped from 50s -> 1.2s - Half the vCPUs with better performance - Actionable performance info with Query Insights Read all about their migration: vitalize.care/blog/from-su...

PlanetScale + @cloudflare.social Hyperdrive is perfect for building globally-distributed apps with a high-performance and scalable database. Today we dropped a deep-dive on how this works and why you should use it ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WR1...

Today we're launching our database skills for AI agents. Give your agents the context they need to make good decisions and write better queries when working with Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, and Neki (coming soon). database-skills.com

✉️ Expedite your migration to PlanetScale. Email us at [email protected] and our migration specialists will be in touch.

PlanetScale offers hands-on migration services to move your Postgres databases to PlanetScale. We handle the entire process for you, from assessment to cutover. Free for YC companies and most large workloads. Reach out to see if you qualify. planetscale.com/migrate

Quality of life improvement: new database list view in your dashboard.

PlanetScale + @cloudflare.social Hyperdrive bring you extremely fast databases, no matter where your app or database is hosted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xps8...

Today we're launching the PlanetScale hosted MCP server. Use your favorite AI agent to explore your data, identify slow queries, and improve database performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3bc...

Need Postgres connection pooling? PlanetScale has three PgBouncer options: - Local: co-located with the primary Postgres instance - Dedicated primary: runs on separate infrastructure, good for pooling + HA - Dedicated replica: pooling for your replica queries

Introducing pg_strict for Postgres. Our new extension adds a safety net to Postgres, catching dangerous queries before they run. www.youtube.com/watch?v=noPn...

Trillions of Postgres and MySQL transactions execute every day. They're at the heart of why relational databases are relied upon by the world's largest applications. Learn all about how they work in our latest article.

"Systems were going down every day." Intercom's Ryan Sherlock walks through their entire database journey: MySQL, Aurora, ProxySQL, and why they ultimately chose PlanetScale.

PlanetScale Postgres + @drizzle.team ORM 🤝 New connection guide is live orm.drizzle.team/docs/connect...

Use our MCP server to access PlanetScale Insights data inside your codebase and get an AI-generated todo list for faster performance based on your actual query patterns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XCR...

How we use Cursor commands to automate our changelog entries: planetscale.com/blog/automat...

⚖️ Database scaling is often the first challenge you'll encounter as your application grows. Our 22 lesson database scaling course covers query tuning, partitioning, replication, connection management, sharding, and more. planetscale.com/learn/course...

It's never been easier to move a MySQL database to PlanetScale using our import tool. We've added better observability, per-table copy selection, and other advanced migration features. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HC...

- @planetscale.com by @samlambert.com: A MySQL-compatible serverless database with built-in scaling, branching, and non-blocking schema changes.

Why are there so many ways to connect to Postgres? Because each method has tradeoffs. The right choice depends on your architecture. Let's break down 5 connection methods including direct, PgBouncer, and Hyperdrive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL1C...

We're donating $30,000 to directly support open source projects. Tune in to the livestream with Open Source Santa: www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen

All the employees at @planetscale.com are sponsoring open source projects and their maintainers today. My choice: @pgrx.bsky.social, which lets us write PostgreSQL extensions using Rust. github.com/pgcentralfou...

Looking for last minute gift ideas for $50 or less? Give the gift of blazing fast NVMe drives. It's been a busy week of shipping ⬇️

We've upgraded the import experience for Vitess databases. You can now monitor per-table progress, replication lag, and perform data verification as a part of your migration to PlanetScale.

Postgres 18 is here. planetscale.com/blog/postgre...

Analytics queries running slow? PlanetScale now supports pg_duckdb and integrates with the MotherDuck cloud, making your OLAP workloads lightning-fast.

$50 PlanetScale Metal is live. pscale.link/metal-50

PlanetScale Postgres keeps getting better! Single-node databases, primary PgBouncers, intelligent Insights improvements, and more. Check out what we've shipped ⬇️

Want better database observability? PlanetScale has Prometheus-compatible metrics exporters for both Vitess and Postgres. This plugs right in with tools you already know: Grafana, Datadog, and other popular monitoring platforms.

PlanetScale Insights shows you how queries perform, now also find out what they do. Get a plain-language summary for any query. Available now in the Insights dashboard.

We've added metric groups to the Insights dashboard. This makes it easier to navigate your queries and quickly identify the ones consuming too many resources or executing slowly.

You can now manage webhooks directly from the PlanetScale CLI. Webhooks are useful for controlling databases in CI/CD workflows, setting up automated Slack notifications, and triggering storage usage warnings. Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/we...