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Gossip Protocol Explained

You can subscribe to the system design newsletter to excel in system design interviews and software architecture. The original article was published on systemdesign.one website. What Is Gossip Protocol? The typical problems in a distributed system are the following [1], [11]: maintaining the system state (liveness of nodes) communication between nodes The potential solutions to these problems are as follows [1]: centralized state management service peer-to-pe

Fine-tuning Stable Diffusion models on Intel CPUs

Iterating from design to deploy: the shape of future builders

In a world of accelerating digital innovation, we need tools that transform the web development landscape. In his recent , Guillermo Rauch spoke about how we at Vercel enable builders—non-developers included—to tighten the cycle of design and deploy.Figma Config keynote Below, we’ll dive behind the scenes of the talk and give you tangible ways to try out Vercel’s Frontend Cloud. Read more

Performant database tree traversal with Rails

We recently solved an interesting performance problem in our Rails API when performing a tree traversal. We have some code that figures out a 3-way merge for your database schemas. To do this, we need to calculate a merge base between two schemas (like git!). Our Rails API keeps track of changes to each PlanetScale database schema. We call each of these changes a "schema snapshot," similar to a git commit that stores the state of the schema at a specific time. Each snapshot can have one or two p

Meet the Vercel AI Accelerator Participants

Today, we’re announcing the participants of —a program for the brightest builders and early-stage startups.Vercel’s AI AcceleratorAI We're thrilled to include both prominent builders and rising startups solving interesting or impactful problems, like using AI for cancer detection or transforming how academic research is made available. We received from talented startups and individuals and accepted 40, which is less than 3% of applications. The 40 accepted participants are presented below.over

Prisma 5: Faster by Default

Prisma 5.0.0 introduces new changes that make it significantly faster. These changes especially improve the experience using Prisma in serverless environments.

Accurately analyzing large scale qualitative data

Viable uses GPT-4 to analyze qualitative data at a revolutionary scale with unparalleled accuracy.

Announcing PlanetScale Scaler Pro

Note: The Scaler Pro plan has since been renamed to the Base plan. Today, we're announcing a new generation of PlanetScale plans and pricing. Most prominently: we're replacing our Teams plan with a new "Scaler Pro" offering that combines the best of our current plans and enterprise offerings for companies of all sizes. These plans allow customers to select exactly the resources they need for their workloads. As we've onboarded thousands of customers, large and small, one of the most common piece