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Prisma Compute

The story of Prisma Compute: TypeScript app hosting that runs on the same infrastructure as your database. From the public beta launch to the runtime engineering underneath.

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Launching Prisma Compute in Public Beta
AnnouncementJune 8, 2026

Launching Prisma Compute in Public Beta

Prisma Compute is now in public beta: TypeScript app hosting that runs on the same infrastructure as your database. Point your agent at your project and tell it to deploy.

Shane Neubauer
Shane Neubauer
Is Prisma 8 Ready for Long-Lived Production Apps?
ORMSeptember 9, 2026

Is Prisma 8 Ready for Long-Lived Production Apps?

Prisma 8's lead developer answers three concerns from a Reddit thread: the new architecture, Prisma's commercial incentives, and whether the migration model hides your SQL.

Will Madden
Will Madden
Why Your Agent Reads a Prisma Schema Better Than Your Codebase
AIAugust 6, 2026

Why Your Agent Reads a Prisma Schema Better Than Your Codebase

Your data model in one declarative file. We measure what a Prisma schema costs an AI coding agent in tokens and type-check time, and what it buys.

Nurul Sundarani
Nurul Sundarani
Infraslopture and Other Paradoxes
AIAugust 3, 2026

Infraslopture and Other Paradoxes

How we're combining untrustable agents and production infrastructure without burning down our servers

Gemma Anible
Gemma Anible
From Local Development to Production with Prisma Postgres
Prisma PostgresJuly 31, 2026

From Local Development to Production with Prisma Postgres

The exact checklist for moving a Prisma app from local Postgres, Docker or prisma dev, to hosted Prisma Postgres: schema, data, config, and validation.

Søren Bramer Schmidt
Søren Bramer Schmidt
Search encrypted data with Prisma 8 and CipherStash
AnnouncementJuly 30, 2026

Search encrypted data with Prisma 8 and CipherStash

CipherStash brings searchable field-level encryption to Prisma 8: encrypted equality, free-text and range queries, and identity-based key management.

Dan Draper
Dan Draper
Don't Let Your AI Agent Delete Your Production Database
ORMJuly 30, 2026

Don't Let Your AI Agent Delete Your Production Database

AI coding agents keep wiping production databases. Prisma 8 removes the failure modes structurally: no reset command, no shadow database, and migrations that verify every step.

Will Madden
Will Madden
Your AI Agent Needs File Storage. Now It Can Get Its Own
AnnouncementJuly 28, 2026

Your AI Agent Needs File Storage. Now It Can Get Its Own

Object Store buckets add S3-compatible file storage to every Prisma project. Two Management API calls take an agent from nothing to reading and writing files.

Nurul Sundarani
Nurul Sundarani
How to Make Your Docs Agent-Ready
AIJuly 24, 2026

How to Make Your Docs Agent-Ready

Coding agents fail silently on truncated indexes, broken links, and missing metadata. What we fixed in the Prisma docs, and how to audit yours.

Ankur Datta
Ankur Datta
Ship risky schema changes with per-branch databases
PlatformJuly 24, 2026

Ship risky schema changes with per-branch databases

Prisma Compute gives every branch its own Prisma Postgres database. Rehearse expand-and-contract migrations in isolation before they touch production.

Shane Neubauer
Ankur Datta
Shane Neubauer, Ankur Datta
You Don't Need Elasticsearch, Postgres Already Has Full-Text Search
Prisma PostgresJuly 21, 2026

You Don't Need Elasticsearch, Postgres Already Has Full-Text Search

Build full-text search with tsvector, GIN indexes, and pg_trgm typo tolerance on Prisma Postgres. For most apps, no Elasticsearch cluster required.

Nurul Sundarani
Nurul Sundarani