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

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Ben Dicken from PlanetScale explains how to scale database infrastructure to handle AI agent traffic surges without downtime. Covers core principles including isolation, redundancy, sharding strategies, and back pressure implementation. Demonstrates how Vitess VSchema allows AI agents to design sharding plans, how Traffic Control sets resource budgets for graceful degradation, and how database branching enables safe schema changes. Essential viewing for developers building AI applications that need reliable database infrastructure.