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

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

Ben Dicken of PlanetScale argues that teams can move fast without breaking production, combining isolation, redundancy, sharding, back pressure, and decoupling with AI agent workflows such as VSchema-driven sharding, Traffic Control budgets, schema branching, and one-click reverts. His core claim is that good developer experience produces good primitives for AI.

Serving 2 Million Models Without Melting: Scaling the Hugging Face Hub — Arek Borucki, Hugging Face

Serving 2 Million Models Without Melting: Scaling the Hugging Face Hub — Arek Borucki, Hugging Face

Arek Borucki details how Hugging Face scales its infrastructure to serve millions of models and users, focusing on the evolution of search architecture using MongoDB Atlas and Apache Lucene, robust database scaling with a seven-node cluster and sharding, and dynamic frontend autoscaling with Kubernetes and KEDA to ensure an instant, seamless user experience.