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September 09, 2024

B-trees and database indexes

B-trees are used by many modern DBMSs. Learn how they work, how databases use them, and how your choice of primary key can affect index performance.

September 06, 2024

LFX Mentorship Journey

Introduction # This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the LFX Mentorship program, where I contributed to Vitess, a CNCF graduated project. Vitess is a cloud-native database designed for horizontal scaling of MySQL. My specific focus during this mentorship was on the "Arewefastyet" subproject, an essential benchmarking platform for Vitess. "Arewefastyet" plays a crucial role in ensuring that each new version of Vitess maintains or improves performance, making it a vital component of the Vitess ecosystem.

September 05, 2024

September 04, 2024

Instant deploy requests

PlanetScale now supports instant DDL. Where eligible, you can run deploy requests that complete near-instantly.

September 03, 2024

Tinybird is now HIPAA compliant

Tinybird has achieved compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Learn more about our commitment to data privacy and security.

August 29, 2024