# Introducing Database Traffic Control™: resource budgets for your Postgres query traffic.

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

## Approaches to tenancy in Postgres
There are many ways to slice a Postgres database for multi-tenant applications. Let's look at the three most common approaches and the trade-offs.

## 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.

## Patterns for Postgres Traffic Control
Practical patterns for leveraging Database traffic Control.

## Graceful degradation in Postgres
Not all traffic is created equal. When a database is overwhelmed, you want the important queries to keep executing, even if that means shedding lower-priority work. This is a much better outcome than the alternative: a total database outage.

## High memory usage in Postgres is good, actually
A high memory percentage in PlanetScale Postgres is not necessarily a problem. Let's compare how memory and CPU usage are different, how not all memory usage is created equal, and which signals actually require attention.

## Stripe Projects partnership: Provision PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases from the Stripe CLI
PlanetScale is a co-design and launch partner for the Stripe Projects developer preview, allowing you or your coding agents to provision and manage databases and other dev tools directly from the Stripe CLI.

## Enhanced tagging in Postgres Query Insights
Introducing query tagging improvements in Postgres Query Insights.

## Behind the scenes: How Database Traffic Control works
Learn how Traffic Control enforces real-time limits on Postgres queries.

## Introducing Database Traffic Control
Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.

## Scaling Postgres connections with PgBouncer
PgBouncer is the perfect pairing for Postgres's biggest weakness: connection management. Tuning it just right is important to make this work well.

## Drizzle joins PlanetScale
Drizzle joins PlanetScale.

## Video Conferencing with Postgres
Stream real time video and audio through PostgreSQL on PlanetScale.

## Faster PlanetScale Postgres connections with Cloudflare Hyperdrive
Build a real-time application with PlanetScale and the Cloudflare global network. Infrastructure choices you won't need to migrate away from once you hit scale.

## Introducing the PlanetScale MCP server
Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools directly to your PlanetScale database to optimize schemas, debug queries, and monitor app performance.

## Database Transactions
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?

## Automating our changelog with Cursor commands
How PlanetScale uses Cursor commands to automate our changelog entries.

## Postgres 18 is now available
Postgres 18 is now available on PlanetScale.

## Using MotherDuck with PlanetScale
Using MotherDuck with PlanetScale.

## $50 PlanetScale Metal is GA for Postgres
We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.

## AI-Powered Postgres index suggestions
Introducing AI-powered index suggestions for PostgreSQL.

## $5 PlanetScale is live
You can now create single node Postgres databases on PlanetScale starting at just $5.

## Announcing Vitess 23
Vitess 23 is now generally available.

## $50 PlanetScale Metal
Introducing $50 PlanetScale Metal.

## Report on our investigation of the 2025-10-20 incident in AWS us-east-1
On 2025-10-20, there was an incident that affected PlanetScale, initially caused by DNS misconfiguration in one of PlanetScale’s service providers, followed by several hours of capacity constraints and network instability.