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PlanetScale Blog

We now display PlanetScale system status directly in your dashboard

For most of our customers, their database is the most critical piece of their infrastructure. On the rare occasion an issue comes up, the more information, the better. We recently shipped an improvement to the database page to make it easy to find out if there are any issues with PlanetScale itself. Any time there’s an update to our status page, you’ll now also see it in the UI as well. How we built it The PlanetScale dashboard is a Next.js app backed by a Ruby on Rails API. We felt this would

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High Scalability

Sponsored Post: G-Core Labs, Close, Wynter, Pinecone, Kinsta, Bridgecrew, IP2Location, StackHawk, InterviewCamp.io, Educative, Stream, Fauna, Triplebyte

Who's Hiring?  Close is building the sales communication platform of the future and we're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us accomplish that goal. If you have a passion for databases (both SQL and NoSQL), significant experience building, managing, and monitoring infrastructure, databases, and backend services at scale and want to work with a rag-tag team of hardworking, but humble humans, then come check us out! Wynter is looking for system administrators, engineers, and develop

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PlanetScale Blog

How do Database Indexes Work?

If you’ve queried a database, you’ve probably used an index, even if you didn’t know it at the time. Database indexes help speed up read queries by creating ancillary data structures that make your scans faster. This post will walk through how database indexes work, with a particular focus on MySQL, everyone’s (well, many people’s) favorite homegrown organic database. After you read through how databases indexes work, make sure you check out our video on how to speed things up using composite in

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OpenAI News

DALL·E 2: Extending creativity

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. The artists in our early access group have helped us discover new uses for DALL·E and have served as key voices as we’ve made decisions about DALL·E’s features.

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