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How PlanetScale Powers the Mixedbread Control Plane
Mixedbread · support@mixedbread.com (Mixedbread Team) · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Mixedbread migrated its control plane database from self-managed Postgres to PlanetScale Metal, achieving sub-millisecond query latencies.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers running distributed systems needing fast, reliable operational state management without database operations overhead.
- Watch out
- Results are specific to Mixedbread's workload and query patterns; performance gains may differ significantly for other use cases.
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The patterns behind this
- Control Plane as a Tool
- Agentic SRE (Self-Healing Operations)
- MCP Gateway (Tool Federation & Governance)
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