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Improvements to database branch pages
Branching is a core part of the PlanetScale workflow, and we've just released some updates to improve the experience. All of the information about a branch is now visible on a single page. Production and development branches each have their own unique improvements. Your schema front and center Navigating to the schema page for your branch no longer requires an extra click. Individual tables can be expanded and collapsed and you can easily search by table name. When you're looking at a production
How Hugging Face Accelerated Development of Witty Works Writing Assistant
Announcing Vitess 16
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Vitess 16. Major themes in Vitess 16 Documentation improvements In this release, the maintainer team has decided to put an emphasis on reviewing, editing, and rewriting the website documentation to ensure it's current with the code. With help from CNCF, we have also improved the search experience. We welcome feedback on the current iteration of the docs. GA announcements We are marking VDiff v2 as Generally Available or production-ready in v
Your guide to headless commerce
Adopting a headless, or composable, commerce architecture helps to ensure your digital storefront is high-performing, scalable, and increasing in conversions each year. Leading ecommerce brands are choosing to go headless to stay competitive. Let’s get back to basics and explore what headless commerce is, how it compares to monolithic commerce, and what you should do once you've made the migration to outpace your competitors and reach your KPIs. Read more
Improving the Developer Experience with the Ruby LSP
Optimizing performance for over 6M monthly visitors at CruiseCritic
The web is any traveler’s first stop when it comes to planning vacations. (a subsidiary of Tripadvisor) knows just how essential review sites are to today’s traveler; the company serves six million visitors every month. Growing traffic meant that Cruise Critic needed to evaluate their application stack as well as their development workflow in order to scale. Cruise Critic Read more
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