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Docs Enterprise Pricing Blog Sign in Get started Blog Engineering Follow us We ship a lot, don’t miss a thing. Subscribe Matt Robenolt 1/4/2023 Engineering 7 min read Over here at PlanetScale, we offer you a MySQL database. As a part of this offering, it is critical that we offer you a MySQL protocol-compatible interface to access. This enables using mysql-client as well as any MySQL-compatible driver for your favorite language. But what if we weren’t constrained by this? Could we provide an alternative interface and API? Warning Most of what I will be discussing is not publicly documented and is entirely experimental. The background # As a part of some of our infrastructure initiatives, we demanded new APIs and connectivity features for our database. To support features that weren’t available over the MySQL protocol, we decided to start bolting on a publicly accessible HTTP API. T...

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