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IO Devices and Latency
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
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How does database sharding work?
Learn what database sharding is, how sharding works, and some common sharding frameworks and tools.
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Neki – Sharded Postgres
Neki, sharded Postgres by PlanetScale, is now available in platform preview.
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Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
A novel technique for implementing dynamic language interpreters in Go, applied to the Vitess SQL evaluation engine
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Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess
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PlanetScale Boost
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
PlanetScale offers the world’s fastest and most scalable cloud hosting for Vitess, Neki, and Postgres.
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Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18
Postgres 18 brings a significant improvement to read performance via async I/O and I/O worker threads. Here we compare its performance to Postgres 17.
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Making 768 servers look like 1
How to make 768 distinct Postgres servers look like 1 to your applications.
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Keeping a Postgres Queue Healthy
Dead tuples from high-churn job queues can silently degrade your Postgres database when vacuum falls behind—especially alongside competing workloads. Traffic Control keeps cleanup on track.
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The real failure rate of EBS
Our experience running AWS EBS at scale for critical workloads
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118M Queries per Second on Neki
We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.