Move Fast and Don't Break Things: Scaling Databases for the AI Era — PlanetScale

תקציר מקורי באנגליתAI agents are multiplying traffic overnight. Here's how to ship fast without taking your database down with it. Ben Dicken from PlanetScale argues you no longer have to choose between moving fast and keeping things up. He covers the principles behind reliable infrastructure, isolation and redundancy, then how to scale with sharding, back pressure and decoupling, the same ideas PlanetScale uses to run databases for fast-growing AI companies like Cursor. Then he gets to agents: how a simple VSchema JSON file lets an agent design a sharding plan for Vitess, how Traffic Control sets resource budgets so a surge of agent traffic degrades gracefully instead of crashing, and how database branching, deploy requests and one-click reverts let agents change schemas safely. His point: good developer ex