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...

PlanetScale Metal runs in AWS and GCP, making it easy to deploy your database and application near each other.

Our CLI allows you to spin up new branches, manage roles, and even install the PlanetScale MCP server to interact with your database. Now supported in PlanetScale for Postgres: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...

Postgres 13 goes end-of-life November 2025. Learn how to migrate a Postgres 13 database to PlanetScale in our new video guide.

Invites to join the Postgres private preview go out today. We're letting in the entire waitlist. Sign up here: planetscale.com/postgres

We give our customers deep observability into their Postgres databases. From the metrics page, to query insights, and advanced log search, you have all the tools you need to monitor the situation.

We have 3 recommended paths to migrate to PlanetScale for Postgres: 1. WAL log replication for near-zero downtime 2. AWS DMS for complex migrations 3. pg_dump/restore for smaller and low traffic databases Learn more: planetscale.com/docs/postgre...

Seems like everyone's talking about database sharding. Earlier this year, I wrote an interactive guide on how it works for relational databases. Every engineer should know the core principles and challenges of sharding. This article is here to help.

1500 more Postgres early access invites go out tomorrow. And next week, we're letting in the entire waitlist. Get on the list 👇 planetscale.com/postgres

My periodic attempt at brand design. From ChatGPT Meneki-neko cat concept to final product. planetscale.com/blog/announc...

We’ve been hard at work building the most scalable and reliable sharding solution for Postgres. A great piece of software deserves a great name and iconography. Say hello to Neki.

You can now manage Postgres roles via the database settings page and API.

Postgres or Vitess? Metal or EBS? AWS or GCP? Configure your database exactly how you want with PlanetScale.

Migrating to PlanetScale for Postgres allowed supermemory.ai to: - Reduce cost - Improve performance - Significantly lower p99 latency Read all about it on their blog (link below)

We've brought PlanetScale Insights to Postgres. This gives developers deep observability into query performance, index usage, anomaly detection, and more.

If you love distributed systems and databases, you should come work with me at PlanetScale! We're looking for engineers to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance database systems. The work is challenging and simultaneously deeply rewarding. pscale.link/soft-eng

More invites to the PlanetScale for Postgres private preview go out today. Sign up for the waitlist: planetscale.com/postgres

The scalability of Vitess combined with the performance of PlanetScale Metal gives you the best of all worlds: performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Learn more about how it works:

Database summary card shown on @planetscale.com dashboard. Metrics link to corresponding pages. This example has two keyspaces, the sharded one running on NVMe Metal storage.

Showing tabular data in a dropdown. @planetscale.com cluster size menu w/ dozens of SKUs

We don't coddle our machines. In the event of a hardware or network failure, we automatically and aggressively fail over. We exercise this ability daily, with no downtime, on customer databases as we ship changes and do version upgrades. In fact, no machine in our fleet lives longer than 29 days.

Swing by the PlanetScale booth if you're at Rails Conf this week!