Support’s notes from the field
A quick glimpse on Support at PlanetScale and the issues we see the most often.
January 11, 2023
January 10, 2023
Solving N+1’s with Rails `exists?` queries
Learn how to solve your Rails applications N+1’s caused by `exists?` queries.
January 05, 2023
Supabase Beta December 2022
This month the Beta Update is a Launch Week 6 Special, where we review the cascade of announcements.
Favorite compiler and interpreter resources
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January 04, 2023
Faster MySQL with HTTP/3
In this article we explore how our HTTP/3 API compares to the latency of a traditional MySQL client.
General book recommendations
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January 03, 2023
Can your application handle all BIGINT values?
In the past I’ve written about monitoring identity columns to ensure there’s room to grow. But there’s a related danger that’s a little more subtle. Say you have a table whose identity column is an 8-byte bigint. An application that converts those values to a 4-byte integer will not always fail! Those applications will only […]
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Announcing the winners of the Launch Week 6 Hackathon!
COMMIT Latency: Aurora vs. RDS MySQL 8.0
Let’s examine COMMIT latency on Aurora v2 (MySQL 5.7) vs. Aurora v3 (MySQL 8.0) vs. RDS MySQL 8.0 2-AZ vs. RDS MySQL 8.0 3-AZ “cluster”.
January 01, 2023
In response to a frontend developer asking about database development
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December 31, 2022
Databases in 2022: A Year in Review
Andy is back with his analysis of the database world in 2022, including VC funding, blockchains, and Larry Ellison.
The top emojis on Twitter for every hour of 2022
I've been streaming 100 tweets/sec since the beginning of the year and using Tinybird to analyze and publish the top emoji for every hour of 2022. See what events you can find in these 8,760 emojis.