# PlanetScale

Skill · Databases

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/planetscale

PlanetScale is a serverless, MySQL-compatible database platform built on the Vitess technology that powers database sharding at YouTube, designed for easy horizontal scaling and branching workflows similar to Git. Developers use it to deploy schema changes safely through branch-and-merge deploy requests without downtime. It's popular among engineering teams building scalable web and mobile applications.

Related skills: [SQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/sql), [MySQL](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/mysql)

## Open roles requiring PlanetScale (0)

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