PlanetScale announces high-performance cloud hosting for Vitess and Postgres using locally-attached NVMe storage to deliver unlimited IOPS and horizontal scaling.
Sick of slow databases? Our locally-attached NVMe storage unlocks unlimited IOPS, bringing data center performance to the cloud while saving you money. Available for Postgres and MySQL in AWS or GCP.
Neki is a sharded Postgres solution by PlanetScale that enables horizontal scaling to hundreds of millions of QPS and petabytes of data with zero-downtime operations.
PlanetScale describes how it performs massively parallel backups for sharded Postgres databases by spinning up per-shard EC2 instances, restoring prior backups from object storage, and replaying WAL, achieving petabyte-scale backup speeds over 50 GB/s.
Runpod announces FlashBoot, a serverless approach for AI models that moves idle models to cheaper storage and pages them back to GPU, achieving cold starts under 200ms and cutting costs by 90% compared to traditional clouds.
Anyscale demonstrates a 20x speedup in cross-region training data reads by using Alluxio NVMe caching with Ray Data, showing warm cache reads drop from 4,241 to 208 seconds for 1TB.
The author details building Homescale, a tool that creates writable database instances and point-in-time branches from immutable snapshots without full data copies, using a Docker-like image and container model for databases.