Engineering Insights

Migrating from Postgres to MySQL

PlanetScale now supports PostgreSQL. Choosing a data store is one of the most important decisions you'll make when building software applications. The good and bad news though, is that there is an abundance of options. Depending on the type of application you're building, you may opt for a relational database like MySQL or Postgres, a non-relational database like MongoDB or CouchDB, a graph database like Neo4j, or one of the many other alternatives that each bring their own benefits and drawback

From newsletter to global media brand with a frontend cloud

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Navigating tradeoffs in large-scale website migrations

“Why migrate a perfectly functioning website to a new framework? Will the end user benefit from all this, or is it just to satisfy the development team?” We recently helped a client work through this decision process during a redesign of their entire web experience. Read more

Speech Synthesis, Recognition, and More With SpeechT5

Volar: a New Beginning

Most users of Volar know it as the official Vue.js VSCode extension. It started as a personal project when the official recommendation was still Vetur, and over time got adopted as the new official extension due to improved architecture and performance. As a project created to improve the quality of life for developers, we spent over two years before reaching 1.0, and have been continuously shipping stability improvements. But we've still got more work to do, and there are exciting plans for 202

Faster iteration with Turborepo and Vercel Remote Cache

Your software delivery is only as fast as the slowest part of your toolchain. As you and your teams work towards optimizing your deployment pipelines, it's important to make sure the speed of your continuous integration (CI) automations keep pace with your developers. Read more

Generating Stories: AI for Game Development #5

Introducing ⚔️ AI vs. AI ⚔️ a deep reinforcement learning multi-agents competition system