Introducing schema recommendations
Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on production database traffic.
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Foreign key constraints are now generally available
You can now enable foreign key constraints to enforce referential integrity in your PlanetScale database.
OAuth applications are now available to everyone
You can now build integrations that seamlessly authenticate with PlanetScale and allow management access to your users’ organizations and databases from your application.
The future of APIs is (still) beginners
Why it is essential to center APIs around beginners and how to do it, a blog post part of API Futures initiative
Announcing foreign key constraints support
You can now use foreign key constraints in PlanetScale databases.
Announcing the Fivetran integration
Learn how you can extract, load, and transform your PlanetScale data with Fivetran.
Introducing webhooks
You can now automatically trigger HTTP callbacks on events in PlanetScale to build custom integrations, notifications, and workflows.
Streamline database management using the PlanetScale Netlify integration
Learn how to use the new PlanetScale Netlify integration to simplify the process of wiring up a database to your Netlify applications.
Introducing the PlanetScale serverless driver for JavaScript
You can now use PlanetScale in HTTP-only environments like Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, and Netlify Edge Functions.
Backward compatible database changes
Learn about safely using the expand, migrate, and contract pattern to make database schema changes without downtime and data loss.
Safely making database schema changes
How to prevent schema changes from being scary with database best practices and PlanetScale.
Introducing the PlanetScale API and OAuth applications
Manage your databases programmatically with the PlanetScale API.
Revert a migration without losing data
Learn how PlanetScale lets you revert changes to your database after a migration with no downtime and zero data loss.
Introducing PlanetScale Portals: Read-only regions
Put your data where your users and applications are.
Misconceptions about databases in the Jamstack
Breaking down the barriers to using relational databases in Jamstack applications.
Using the PlanetScale CLI with GitHub Actions workflows
Learn how to build automated workflows to develop and operate PlanetScale databases with GitHub Actions.
Scaling databases in a serverless world
In a serverless world traditional databases scale differently. They need a rock solid foundation that Vitess and PlanetScale can provide.
Introducing Prisma's Data Platform PlanetScale integration
Create a PlanetScale database on the Prisma Data Platform; immediately store and query data from the browser.
Building a Next.js app with Netlify NextAuth.js Prisma and a PlanetScale database
A new dynamic Next.js starter app with authentication and PlanetScale built-in ready to be deployed to Netlify.
Using PlanetScale with JetBrains DataGrip
Connect PlanetScale to JetBrains DataGrip to use database branching deploy requests and non-blocking schema changes.
Automatically copy migration data in PlanetScale branches
Use PlanetScale branching with the database schema migration tools of your choice.
Connect any MySQL client to PlanetScale using Connection Strings
Connect PlanetScale to any MySQL client with Connection Strings for a true database experience.
5 Areas of Complexity to Consider When Using External Integrations
Tips for navigating common external integration issues
Adventures in Solo DevRel Notes
Selected slides from a recent talk for the Flyless Weekly call
Understanding the Roots of Our Cloud Complexity
How AWS and cloud computing shifted the complexity of our infrastructure
My Second Pandemic Birthday
For my birthday this year, I am asking for donations to Texas Rising and Texas Civil Rights Project.
Recruiting your first Developer Advocate: The first email
Some thoughts on emails I've gotten about Developer Advocate and Developer Relations jobs and what I want to see
Why I want to explore streaming
An exploration of why I want to explore technical streaming on Twitch
2020 In Review
A recap of what I explored, read, wrote, and spoke about in 2020
The Importance of Bi-Directional Incident Response Integrations
Webhooks and APIs on their own are not enough
API Specifications Conference 2020 Recap
Where Humans and API Specifications Collide
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Artificial Intelligence
What is the right direction forward with AI systems in operations
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Human-in-the-Loop
Why humans are crucial to automation
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Runbooks
How runbooks can be a vehicle for automation
DevOps Spectrum of Automation: Scripts
A look at our longtime, trusted friend in the spectrum of automation
Documentation as a Path to DevOps Automation
How documentation benefits your organization's move towards automation
Rewarding Documentation in DevOps
Why your DevOps practice should include documentation metrics
Writing Runbook Documentation When You're An SRE
Tips and tricks for writing effective runbook documentation when you aren't a technical writer
20 Years Since Y2K: The Future of IT Operations with Chaos Engineering and Resilience
Using Chaos Engineering and resilience alongside DevOps to manage change in our complex systems
20 Years Since Y2K: left-pad, Heartbleed, and DevOps
An exploration of incidents that changed how we operate since Y2K
20 Years Since Y2K: The Evolution of IT Operations and DevOps
A comparison of IT operations tooling at the time of Y2K versus the DevOps tooling we have today
More Flexible JSON Linting with Spectral 4.0
Ruleset improvements and more CLI focus provide a better experience.
on stoplight.io
Introducing Spectral
An open source, flexible JSON linter with out of the box support for the OpenAPI Specification.
on stoplight.io
Writing Documentation When You Aren't A Technical Writer — Part Two
Avoiding oversimplification, writing good error messages, and having better word choice
on medium.com
Writing Documentation When You Aren't A Technical Writer — Part One
How do people actually read documentation and how to write documentation and code samples to maximize developer success
on medium.com
Better API testing with the OpenAPI Specification
Contract testing with the OpenAPI Specification assists in creating an accurate API implementation.
Tracking GitHub Data with Keen IO
on medium.com
10 Things I Learned About Myself Working Remotely
on medium.com
What We Learned When We Surveyed Our Developer Community
Recently, we surveyed our developer community at Keen IO. We wrote about our findings — some matched our instincts, but others surprised us!
on medium.com
So you want developers to love your API
From a talk I gave at API Strategy and Practice Conference
on medium.com