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PlanetScale vs. Amazon RDS

What is PlanetScale? PlanetScale is an extremely fast, scalable, and reliable database platform for Postgres and Vitess. Vitess 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 performant MySQL database service with horizontal sharding, Git-like schema change

Introducing Spend Management

Serverless infrastructure can instantly and infinitely scale. While powerful, this has had tradeoffs. An unforced error or traffic spike could cause an unexpected bill. Read more

Data DX Manifesto: a new era in data-driven app development

Prisma introduces Data DX (Data Developer Experience) as a fresh approach for effortlessly building data-driven applications.

Accelerating over 130,000 Hugging Face models with ONNX Runtime

How to build custom scanners for web security research automation

In this post, I'll share my approach to developing custom automation to aid research into under-appreciated attack classes and (hopefully) push the boundaries of web security. As a worked example, I'l

PlanetScale is bringing vector search and storage to MySQL

We’re excited to announce that we are adding support for vector storage and search into MySQL and PlanetScale. Soon, you’ll be able to use PlanetScale as a vector database for all of your AI needs without needing to adopt a second tool. You can sign up to be notified of release at planetscale.com/ai. What are vectors? A vector is a one-dimensional array of real number values: [1, 1] is a vector, as is [1.5, 8.889, 9.234]. Each element represents an attribute or a dimension, and the position of t

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🧨 Accelerating Stable Diffusion XL Inference with JAX on Cloud TPU v5e