Engineering Insights

A guide to HTML email with Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS

Being in someone’s inbox is a privilege. At PlanetScale, we spend a great amount of time and detail making sure we get it right. We recently shipped weekly database report emails. These report emails are sent out weekly to give you an easy way to see database performance, activity, and actionable next steps. In this article, we’ll cover how we built the HTML emails that power our weekly database reports using Ruby on Rails and Tailwind CSS and how we overcame some of the challenges we faced. Thi

Streamline Kibana dashboard navigation with the Links panel

Find out how to better organize your Kibana dashboards and carry over your filters and queries when navigating between dashboards.

Sharding for cost-effective database management

Sharding provides a unique solution that can optimize database cluster performance as well as the infrastructure costs associated with basic database operations.

Partial prerendering: Building towards a new default rendering model for web applications

At this year’s , we discussed the developer and user experience challenges of global delivery of dynamic web applications. How can we fetch data without expensive waterfalls and also deliver content directly from the edge?Next.js Conf The answer to all of these current challenges: Partial Prerendering (PPR). PPR combines ultra-quick static edge delivery with fully dynamic capabilities and we believe it has the potential to become the default rendering model for web applications, bringing togethe

OpenAI Data Partnerships

Working together to create open-source and private datasets for AI training.

SDXL in 4 steps with Latent Consistency LoRAs

PlanetScale ranks 188th in Deloitte’s top 500 fastest-growing companies

Every year, Deloitte ranks the fastest-growing companies in North America in technology, media, life sciences, fintech, telecommunications, and energy tech. The awardees are chosen based on the percentage of fiscal year growth they’ve experienced. The Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ is now in its 29th year, and PlanetScale is thrilled and honored to share that we’ve placed 188th out of 500. This isn’t the first time PlanetScale has been recognized for its growth trajectory. Our workplace culture a

Favorite teams and projects to appear in your dashboard

We recently introduced an improved  on Vercel, including the option to favorite projects.project and team switcher Now, favorited projects will also appear in your dashboard overview, and you can easily add and remove them from the context menu. Read more