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You can now provision dedicated PgBouncers for your Postgres replicas.

This gives you a connection pool that evenly distributes connections across your available replicas, making it simple to scale out read-only traffic.

Partnering with Cloudflare to bring you the fastest globally distributed applications — PlanetScale You can now easily set up PlanetScale databases with Cloudflare Workers using this native integration.

We've partnered with @cloudflare.social to make it easy to ship full-stack apps backed by Postgres or Vitess and Cloudflare Workers.

Sign in to your PlanetScale or Cloudflare account to get started and scale to millions.

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PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA.

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PlanetScale now supports Postgres.

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You can now export a rich set of metrics to Prometheus, unlocking more options for you to monitor your database with tools like Grafana, Datadog, and New Relic.

PlanetScale vectors is now GA — PlanetScale You can now use vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.

PlanetScale vectors is now GA!

We have made vectors a first-class part of MySQL - focusing on robustness to make sure vector support is as solid as every other data type MySQL supports.

pscale.link/vectors

⚡ Introducing PlanetScale Metal ⚡

- Blazing fast NVMe drives
- Unlimited IOPS
- Drastic reductions in latency
- And best price:performance ratio of any database available in AWS or GCP

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“The actual cutover was almost comically boring, which is exactly where I wanted to be after all the upfront work we put in.” - Aaron Young, Eng Manager at Cash App

Cash App's move to PlanetScale required migrating over 400 shards - all with no interruption to the millions of daily transactions and zero impact on customers.

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And @ayrton.be!

Pulling back the curtain: the new database overview page Learn about the latest updates we made to our database overview page: load balancers, shards, and more.

Databases: not something you can do in a weekend. This was a fun collabo with @notfelineit.bsky.social, @iheanyi.bsky.social, and @jasonlong.me.