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PlanetScale Blog

What is MySQL partitioning?

When the performance of your database server starts to decline from general usage, you have several options for optimizing it. One common method for optimizing your MySQL database is through partitioning. In this article, we’ll cover the basics of MySQL partitioning, how to apply partitioning to your database, and we'll discuss how it’s related to sharding. The basics of MySQL partitioning Partitioning is the idea of splitting something large into smaller chunks. In MySQL, the term “partitioning

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Vercel Blog

Images on the web

Images are the most popular resource type on the web, yet understanding the nuances of various image formats and their technical attributes can be challenging. Read more

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PlanetScale Blog

Personalizing your onboarding with Markdoc

We recently released a new and improved onboarding flow for PlanetScale. The goal of our new onboarding is to help developers quickly connect and query their PlanetScale databases. How to connect varies greatly by the language and framework your application uses. Each framework has small quirks, so it was important to us that no matter what language/framework your application uses, we offer a one-track path for you to get connected. The key to building out this onboarding was Markdoc. This post

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PlanetScale Blog

PlanetScale vs. Amazon Aurora

What is PlanetScale? PlanetScale is an extremely fast, scalable, and reliable database platform for Postgres and Vitess. Vitess is the popular open-source database management technology created at YouTube that enables horizontal sharding of MySQL abstracted from the application layer. It’s designed to improve database management and provide a performant, fault-tolerant database that can handle large workloads. PlanetScale provides customers with the power of Vitess, offering a fully managed and

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