Supply Chain Security After xz: What Changed and What Didn’t
On March 29, 2024, Andres Freund, a Microsoft engineer working on PostgreSQL performance, noticed something strange. SSH connections to his…
Postgres Extensions You Should Know: pg_stat_statements, TimescaleDB, and Beyond
PostgreSQL ships with a solid core, but extensions are where it transforms from a reliable relational database into something far…
Database Connection Pooling Explained: PgBouncer, ProxySQL, and When You Actually Need Them
Why Connection Pooling Exists Every time your application opens a connection to a database, a small negotiation happens: TCP handshake,…
Database Migrations Without Downtime: Strategies That Scale
Few tasks in software engineering generate as much anxiety as changing a production database schema. Application deployments can be rolled…
PostgreSQL Performance Tuning for Small Teams: The 80/20 Guide
Most PostgreSQL performance problems have surprisingly simple fixes. This guide covers the 20% of tuning that solves 80% of real-world…
Self-Hosting in the Cloud Era: When It Makes Sense and When It Doesn’t
The self-hosting vs cloud decision is not ideological — it is economic. A practical framework for when running your own…