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PlanetScale integrates with Arctype's MySQL GUI

etnoctua — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:47:58 +0000

Check out our exclusive integration with Arctype, our favorite database GUI for developers.

Arctype features a fast, modern interface with keyboard shortcuts, a command bar to quickly find objects, and the best support for JSON in a SQL client. It’s also free to use. You can already connect to the main branch of your PlanetScale database in Arctype, but today it’s possible to connect to development branches, switch between them, and even create deploy requests. The power of PlanetScale is experienced within a beautiful GUI!

For a full walk through, check out the demo video.

Prisma Data Platform's PlanetScale Integration

etnoctua — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 15:30:09 +0000

As developers, we often want to build faster, but that comes with tradeoffs that we have to deal with in the long run. At PlanetScale, we want to empower developers to be able to build without having to worry about issues of database scalability as their application grows. Similarly, Prisma wants to empower developers to efficiently work with data while making fewer errors.

PlanetScale and Prisma have partnered up to allow developers to create PlanetScale databases in the new Prisma Data Platform. You can have a starter database schema and a live PlanetScale database ready to accept thousands of new database connections with a few clicks.

The Prisma Data Platform provides you with application templates with Prisma data schemas, so you don't even have to think about a data model to get started. Once set up, you can deploy to Vercel immediately or use the Prisma Data Explorer and Query Builder to explore your PlanetScale database.

Try out creating your first PlanetScale database with one of the application templates and experience the power of Prisma with PlanetScale for yourself.

Zero downtime data migrations with PlanetScale Data Imports

etnoctua — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:15:25 +0000

PlanetScale now supports zero downtime data migrations from your existing MySQL database with our new Data Imports tool. We’re leveraging the power of Vitess to let you try us out as a replica and then easily switch over your database to PlanetScale completely. No dumping your data, no restoring from backup. Just give us a connection and let us handle the rest.

When you connect your existing MySQL database to PlanetScale, you instantly get to experience the power of PlanetScale’s platform, which includes:

Secure Passwords that scale to thousands of simultaneous connections.
Query Statistics start finding & optimizing slow queries.
Web Console to query your database directly from the PlanetScale web UI.

The tool will help you along the way to make your data import successful and alert you on any incompatibility issues we may encounter.

Try importing your existing MySQL Database on PlanetScale and let us know how we can make this better. We’d love to hear from you on any ideas you have to improve onboarding.

PlanetScale is now GA

etnoctua — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:07:48 +0000

It has been an incredible six months since we released our product in beta. From the outset we focused on creating a platform that would delight developers, built on top of the only open source database proven at hyperscale, Vitess.

We believe databases should be powerful, easy to use, and have impeccable DX. This is why we chose to build our serverless platform so that developers can be productive without ever having to worry about scale.

With PlanetScale you can:

Instantly create dev and staging environments with database branching
Deploy features fast and safer with non-blocking schema changes
Scale out with built-in horizontal sharding
Handle traffic with unlimited connections and connection pooling
Analyze slow queries using our Query Stats tool

Our database platform is now GA and ready for your production workloads.

Get started with PlanetScale for free and check out the new features that will change how you work with databases. Also, we're happy to answer any questions you might have and if check out this post if you're interested in how we used PlanetScale to build PlanetScale.

Building a Next.js app with Netlify, NextAuth.js, Prisma, and a PlanetScale serverless database

etnoctua — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 15:40:01 +0000

Git-centric workflows have fundamentally changed how we build for the web. As developers, we want isolated environments to develop and test our applications. As Netlify’s CEO Matt Biilmann mentioned in his recent Jamstack Conf keynote, our back-end data layer is still a single branch. It’s often talking to a long-running server or a production environment.

It doesn’t have to be this way. PlanetScale supports database schema branching, deploy requests, and non-blocking schema changes. Your staging environment’s database can be isolated from the production environment’s database.

We are excited to announce a new Next.js starter app that can be deployed to Netlify with the “Deploy to Netlify” button, uses NextAuth.js for built-in authentication, and Prisma to interact with your PlanetScale database.

The starter app is located today on the Netlify Jamstack Templates page. Want to get started right away? Click the button below!

Note: After you deploy to Netlify, you will need to follow the instructions in the documentation to get your PlanetScale database up and running.

Since this is just the first version of this starter app, we would love to hear your feedback!

The database for developers is here

etnoctua — Tue, 18 May 2021 17:18:51 +0000

Our team has worked at companies like YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, DigitalOcean, and GitHub, and we've always had to solve the same problem — database scaling.

The story is the same each time... The day 1 stack is chosen to optimize for developer velocity to get that MVP out the door. After some success, years 3 or 4 are spent paying down immense technical debt — mostly due to that early database choice.

Now with PlanetScale, there is a better way. Built on the Vitess engine that powers companies like YouTube, GitHub, and Square, our new database platform is fully integrated with the developer workflow and is set up to take you from idea to IPO.

Try out our free Developer plan today and check out the new functionality that will change how you work with your database, like live database branching and non blocking schema changes.