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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

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