Engineering Insights

New embedding models and API updates

Hugging Face and Google partner for open AI collaboration

PlanetScale vs Amazon Aurora replication

Amazon Aurora is Amazon's solution for simplifying the process of scaling up RDS databases by allowing you to implement read-only replicas to offload some of the workloads from your primary read/write node. PlanetScale also allows our users to do the same, however, the strategy in which Amazon replicates databases is drastically different from traditional MySQL replication. In this article, we're going to cover how PlanetScale implements replication compared to Aurora, all while touching on vari

Open-source LLMs as LangChain Agents

Hiding payloads in Java source code strings

In this post we'll show you how Java handles unicode escapes in source code strings in a way you might find surprising - and how you can abuse them to conceal payloads. We recently released a powerful

Introducing the Vantage and PlanetScale integration

We are excited to announce that you can now connect your PlanetScale account to Vantage to sync all your invoice data with the new Vantage + PlanetScale integration. What is Vantage? Vantage is a cloud cost observability platform that allows you to analyze, understand, and report on your organization's cloud costs. Now, with the PlanetScale integration, you can include your PlanetScale databases in your cost reporting. With Vantage, you can create budgets, set up alerts, monitor tagged resources

Node.js 21.6.1 (Current)

How Core Web Vitals affect SEO

Core Web Vitals influence how your application's pages rank on Google. Here, we'll dive into what they are, how they’re measured, and how your users and search ranking are impacted by them. Read more