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Prisma ORM Quickstart for Next.js
Zero-to-deployed app on the App Router — server actions, edge runtime, and a sane migration story.
Prisma
Docs
Prisma with TanStack Start
Full-stack type-safe queries with TanStack Start server functions and Prisma ORM.
Prisma
Docs
Connection pooling, demystified
When to pool, when to skip it, and what actually breaks past 200 concurrent connections.
Prisma
Docs
Row-level security with Prisma Postgres
Patterns for multi-tenant apps that don't fall apart under audit.
Prisma
Demo
Realtime chat with Prisma + Pusher
End-to-end typed pub/sub over Postgres with optimistic UI and a tiny presence system.
Prisma
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Type-safe webhooks from your schema
Generate validators and replayers straight from Prisma. Stop drifting from the source of truth.
Prisma
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An SQL playground for LLMs
Let your model write queries against a sandbox you can actually trust to undo itself.
Personal
Talk
Why your ORM is the bottleneck
An honest, benchmarked look at where ORMs slow you down — and the smaller list of places they don't.
Conferences
Talk
Postgres for people who hate Postgres
A workshop for converts. Done with Postgres? Try it again — but with extensions this time.
Conferences
Talk
Schema-first development
30 minutes and lots of diagrams on why Prisma was built the way it was — and what we'd change.
Conferences
Post
What I learned shipping Prisma 6
Six months of release notes condensed into one honest postmortem about scope, schedule, and trust.
Prisma
Post
DevRel is not marketing
A short field guide for engineers who suddenly find themselves on a stage with a microphone.
Personal
Post
The hidden cost of npm install
Measuring the half-second tax on every Node project you ship, and where most of it goes.
Personal
Post
Why I still write SDKs by hand
A defense of artisanal client libraries in the age of OpenAPI generators that almost work.
Personal
Video
Prisma in 100 seconds
The one-minute pitch. Watch it before you decide we're not for you.
Prisma
Video
Live: Auth with Lucia + Prisma
Two hours, one bug, zero edits. Just like real life.
Personal
OSS
prisma-extension-cache
Drop-in Redis caching for any Prisma query. ~3k stars and a handful of very angry edge cases.
Personal
OSS
next-route-typesafe
Type-safe routing for the App Router so you can stop guessing the names of your own pages.
Personal