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...

If you're at re:Invent next week and want to learn how PlanetScale can save you money and improve performance, book a private demo with our team:

Shared-nothing is the best way to scale a relational database. Nick Van Wiggeren spoke at P99 CONF about how PlanetScale operates massive, high-performance Vitess databases.

Postgres databases now come with LLM-powered index recommendations. Indexes are crucial for database performance, and these recommendations help ensure your queries are executing optimally. Read about how we built this: planetscale.com/blog/postgre...

The fastest cloud Postgres combined with world-class monitoring tools.

Stop by the PlanetScale booth at @sfruby.com to meet the team + get a hat and some free PlanetScale credits. You can find us right outside the main stage room.

How do Postgres and MySQL achieve data durability? Our very own Chris Sinjakli spoke at SREcon about how this works and the many engineering challenges it presents. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFGN...

$5 PlanetScale Postgres is live. planetscale.com/blog/5-dolla...

Day 2 of KubeCon. Come by booth 643 for a Vitess or Postgres demo!

You can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas. This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.

Attending KubeCon next week? Swing by booth 643 to meet the PlanetScale team + get a demo and swag. Then on Wednesday, join us at the PlanetScale x @depot.dev Speakeasy Happy Hour for food, drinks, and networking. luma.com/wvs2py2m

We just shipped IP restrictions for PlanetScale Postgres databases. You can now restrict connections to specific IP ranges. Learn more in the docs: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...

We've added support for the TimescaleDB Postgres extension. Access rolls out this week during your next scheduled maintenance window. planetscale.com/changelog/po...

Coming soon: $50 PlanetScale Metal and the ability to dynamically allocate CPU and memory independent of storage size. planetscale.com/blog/50-doll...

$5 PlanetScale releasing soon planetscale.com/blog/5-dolla...

So, when Whop decided to migrate to @planetscale.com, we used a dual-database Rails setup to let them keep shipping while migrating. Results: “We successfully moved 750GB of production data from Postgres to PlanetScale—with zero downtime,” says , founder of Whop. evilmartians.com/chronicles/m...

How do you make agentic AI systems reliable at scale? This Thursday, Goblins CTO Alp Karavil will share how he built a reliable and scalable AI math tutoring system using DBOS durable workflow orchestration with PlanetScale Postgres. Register now: luma.com/vgcn4847

PlanetScale's fault tolerance relies on simple principles, processes, and architectures, but the real work is in the execution. These are the principles we follow to keep our systems reliable. planetscale.com/blog/the-pri...

PlanetScale Metal continuously comes out on top compared to other cloud database providers. Unlike other options w/ local NVMe drives, PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, not our own data centers. This make for a blazing fast database while staying close to your other infrastructure.

We've added 5 new columns to Insights for Postgres databases. These reveal block-level read and write behavior, helping you better understand the effect of the shared buffer cache on your query performance. Read more: planetscale.com/changelog/po...

I benchmarked 96 combinations of Postgres 17 and 18. There's a few surprising results, but overall Postgres 18 has some nice improvements. Read all about it at the link below.

Postgres 17 vs 18. How does read performance compare between the two? What is the best server configuration to maximize performance? Check out our latest blog for detailed benchmarks.

New region alert! 🌍 You can now create Postgres and Vitess databases in the europe-west1 region in GCP (Belgium).

Thinking about using UUIDs as primary keys? Read this first. In short, random UUIDs can negatively impact database performance with page splits, 4-9x storage overhead, and slower inserts. Use v7 or consider alternatives like BIGINT or NanoIDs. planetscale.com/blog/the-pro...

Schema recommendations are available for Postgres databases. We analyze your database daily and provide recommendations for optimization: - Remove redundant indexes - Prevent primary key ID exhaustion - Drop unused tables and indexes - Rebuild bloated tables and indexes

Vitess databases on PlanetScale support sophisticated vector search. We've published a deep-dive on how we built this for MySQL in a way that is scalable, performant, and ACID-compliant.

If you want to hear real-world stories about how companies handle millions of QPS, swing by tomorrow's Vitess Night at the PlanetScale office. You won't want to miss our 2 featured talks: - How Slack runs Vitess - Incoming Query Throttler at Uber RSVP: luma.com/3qp4pjhu

Migrate your Postgres database to PlanetScale, fast. Our migration-scripts repo has tools for migrating: - Postgres → PlanetScale PG (Logical or DMS) - Heroku PG → PlanetScale PG (via Bucardo) - Postgres → Vitess

We just added 4 new Insights columns for Postgres databases to track per-query pattern CPU and I/O utilization. - Cumulative CPU time - Cumulative I/O time - % of CPU time - % of I/O time

We've partnered with @cloudflare.social to make it easy to ship full-stack apps backed by Postgres or Vitess and Cloudflare Workers. Sign in to your PlanetScale or Cloudflare account to get started and scale to millions. planetscale.com/blog/partner...

Postgres: process-per-connection MySQL: thread-per-connection Learn more about processes, threads, connection pooling, and how they impact database performance in our latest interactive article.

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA. planetscale.com/blog/planets...

We just posted a new blog about how a lagging Postgres replication client can stall or break failover with HA Postgres, and how MySQL’s GTID model avoids this: planetscale.com/blog/postgre...

📅 Join PlanetScale and @convex.dev on 9/24 for an evening of lightning talks, an expert panel, and networking. We'll explore how your database choice can impact your ability to scale + how great database DX prevents operational pain down the road. luma.com/dxanddbv1

Minimizing query latency is crucial for keeping your databases performant and your applications fast. Learn how to use Insights to identify slow queries.

We give users full control over the size and capabilities of their network-attached Postgres storage. Tune minimum size, maximum autoscaling, IOPS, and throughput.

Join us in 1 hour for our next livestream - Introduction to PlanetScale. We'll cover: - High-availability configurations - Query Insights and metrics - Sharding - And more Register below: streamyard.com/watch/zXmGRU...

Next Livestream: Intro to PlanetScale! We'll cover high-availability configurations, Query Insights, metrics, and show sharding in action. Tuesday 9AM PST. Sign up at the link below. streamyard.com/watch/zXmGRU...