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Announcing the Fivetran integration
You can now extract data from PlanetScale and use it as a data source in your extract, load, and transform (ELT) processes with Fivetran. Today, we are announcing a Fivetran integration for PlanetScale. This fully managed data integration can extract data from your PlanetScale database and safely load it into other destinations for analysis, transformation, and more. The integration with Fivetran is quick to set up with your PlanetScale connection information and benefits from the large Fivetran
Understanding cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored by web browsers on a user's device at the request of web servers. They are sent back unchanged by the browser each time it accesses that server. Cookies allow the server to "remember" specific user information, facilitating functionalities like , , and .maintaining user sessionsremembering preferencestracking user behavior Read more
Personal Copilot: Train Your Own Coding Assistant
Next.js 14
Next.js 14 includes included performance, stability for Server Actions, a new course teaching the App Router, and more.
Introducing webhooks
You can now automatically trigger a webhook to get notified when certain events occur inside PlanetScale. Webhooks are an effective way to build integrations between systems that don't necessarily have strong ties with each other. A webhook, which is an outbound HTTP POST callback, can be triggered by various events. With webhooks, you can get near real-time data through automation. While an API must be polled by external services, webhooks can push information when an event occurs. Along with t
Frontier risk and preparedness
To support the safety of highly-capable AI systems, we are developing our approach to catastrophic risk preparedness, including building a Preparedness team and launching a challenge.
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