Engineering Insights

Non-Blocking Schema Changes

With the launch of PlanetScale, we are excited to share more about the non-blocking schema change workflow we’ve built for our platform. The challenge We love developers. We obsess over how to make them more productive with their database. In every conversation with our customers, we’ve heard that schema changes are one of the biggest pain points when it comes to using a relational database. We’ve heard about schema change processes that require opening tickets to get a DBA review for each chang

Node.js 16.2.0 (Current)

Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers.

Every one of us at PlanetScale is deeply unsatisfied by the current state of “modern” databases. We’ve worked at companies like YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, DigitalOcean, and GitHub, always focused on solving the same problem — database scaling. We’ve seen the same sad pattern repeat year after year. Companies pick a stack on day 1 that optimizes for developer velocity to get that MVP out the door. After they see some success, years 3 or 4 are spent paying down immense technical debt — mostly due

Node.js 14.17.0 (LTS)

OpenAI Scholars 2021: Final projects

We’re proud to announce that the 2021 class of OpenAI Scholars has completed our six-month mentorship program and have produced an open-source research project with stipends and support from OpenAI.

How Grover Moves Faster and is More Productive with Prisma

Grover has many individual development teams that each work in slightly different stacks. Prisma is catching on as a way to help their teams move faster and be more confident in their code.

Learn 5 Tools for Documenting Web APIs

Explore five tools and approaches for documenting web APIs so teams can ship clearer, more usable developer experiences.

Node.js 16.1.0 (Current)