PlanetScale

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

At scale, you can only put off sharding for so long. YouTube scaled MySQL with Vitess, and now we're building the same for Postgres.

PlanetScale Postgres starts at $5/month, but feel free to shove as many apps as you like into a single database cluster.

Coincidentally (or not!), the beautiful office of PlanetScale is the venue for the next SF Ruby meetup on June 18, with @jeremyevans0 speaking! sfruby.com

@jessethanley @nateberkopec @dragonflydbio AWS is absolutely ridiculous for managed services... When we moved from RDS to PlanetScale last summer we halved our bill. I did the math recently and for what we pay PlanetScale 5-7k would be 9-14 on RDS varying by setup

We're hiring for Postgres. Come join a group of exceptional pg engineers that love databases, kubernetes, and writing Go (or even... Rust and Zig!) One of my favorite things about PlanetScale is the engineering culture. It's truly something special. planetscale.com/careers

"Performance, reliability, and scaling all bottlenecked on the same root cause: we were running a fast inference engine on a slow disk." But once Magicare migrated to PlanetScale, they achieved an 85%+ reduction in query latency, 17× faster materialized view refreshes, and a 6× smaller database footprint per instance. Read their article for all the details. magicare.ai/articles/how-m…

If you’re not careful, ingress (free) can become egress (not free). Double-check your agents work, they could quietly be costing you money.

Come with me to Notion's first hackathon 🤩 Grateful for @planetscale being a leading sponsor and supporting the next generation of engineers and builders! Congratulations to @_Brian_Zhang!! ⚡️ s/o to @accomazzo, @PedersenCarter, and the Notion ganggg 🤏🤏🤍

What if your database could fix itself? @hiradp will show you how. Join us in San Francisco on June 3rd for a presentation on self-improving Postgres databases. Register below.

The @PlanetScale MCP is really wonderful. It makes finding and fixing slow queries so easy

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: planetscale.com/blog/database-…

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

SF builders — last call. May 16–17: join the Notion team to build on our new Developer Platform. Sync data into Notion, tool-enabled agents, triggers anywhere. No servers. Just a CLI + your ideas. With support from @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @vercel @MiniMax_AI @PlanetScale Grab your spot: luma.com/fyuf7?utm_sour…

PlanetScale is the p99 killer ... but what does p99 even mean?

Investigate your database with PlanetScale Insights. Available for MySQL and Postgres on all plans via the dashboard and MCP server. Query performance, errors, anomalies, and recommendations are all here.

Come get a sneak peek of HQ tonight, hop in the Luma :) luma.com/zfw3rvnk

Our latest article walks through how to solve performance problems with Insights planetscale.com/blog/problem-s…

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.

Drizzle makes your database go brrrrrrrrr (Interview with Andrew and Alex) x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

And the updates to our AUP planetscale.com/blog/transpare…

Read about how to conduct good database benchmarks planetscale.com/blog/on-benchm…

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.