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How Shopify Built An In-Context Analytics Experience

Using & Mixing Hugging Face Models with Gradio 2.0

Serverless finally has a database

In 2010, when the Vitess project was started to help the YouTube team at Google handle MySQL database scalability issues, the Ruby on Rails application framework was about 5 years old, and there were already several “Unicorn” companies that had leveraged both technologies to massive success. What has happened in the interim? If you trace the advancements in databases, do they compare with the advancements in application development? More than 10 years later, Rails has gone on to be tremendously

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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

Three Ways We Share Context at Shopify Engineering