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Simeon Griggs [@simeonGriggs] | April 10, 2026
Dead tuples from high-churn job queues can silently degrade your Postgres database when vacuum falls behind—especially alongside competing workloads. Traffic Control keeps cleanup on track.
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Simeon Griggs [@simeonGriggs] | April 10, 2026

Posts about the PlanetScale platform, MySQL, Postgres, databases, and more.

Practical patterns for leveraging Database traffic Control

Blog posts by Simeon Griggs on the PlanetScale blog.

Posts about the PlanetScale platform, MySQL, PostgreSQL, databases, and more.

Enforce real-time limits on your Postgres query traffic to protect your database from runaway queries and unexpected load spikes.

A high memory percentage in PlanetScale Postgres is not necessarily a problem. Let's compare how memory and CPU usage are…