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SecureCallOps: Building a Privacy-First Phone-Banking Tool
SecureCallOps is a phone outreach platform built for volunteer phone-banking, where callers receive one contact at a time instead...
Why Vibe Coders Eventually Hit a Database Wall (and Don’t Know Why)
- Built a read-only AI-assisted tool after repeatedly seeing non-DBA builders struggle to diagnose database performance issues as...
What I Learned Running Both SQL Server and PostgreSQL at Scale
SQL Server may fail over slightly faster, but PostgreSQL with Patroni offers a strong, production-grade HA stack at a much lower l...
A Long Story About How I Dug Into the PostgreSQL Source Code to Write my Own WAL...
A developer’s curiosity about pg_receivewal turns into building a PostgreSQL WAL receiver, backup system, and deeper respect for C...
The n8n + PostgreSQL Integration Nobody Talks About
N8n-to-Postgres workflows can lead to problems in production. Most people use 'INSERT' when they should be using 'ON CONFLICT' The...
Mastering Database Functions: A Beginner's Guide to Simplifying Backend Code
A database function is a block of reusable code that lives inside your database. Think of it like a regular function in any progra...
A Practical Guide to Table Partitioning in PostgreSQL
As PostgreSQL tables grow into hundreds of millions of rows, query performance can suffer even with strong indexing. Table partiti...
Investigating the "Bus Factor" Risk in MongoDB, MariaDB, and More
The “bus factor” (also called “truck factor’) measures how many people would have to disappear before no one left knows how to fix...
Anthropic Backs Databasus Under Claude for Open Source Program
atabasus — open source self-hosted database backup tool (5,800+ GitHub stars, 250k+ Docker pulls) — was accepted into Anthrop...
I Spent Two Weeks Testing 8 Databases With the Same Question - Here's What Actua...
An analytics dashboard at a company was taking 4 minutes to load. The company was spending $8,000 a month on a database that was b...
How OpenAI Scaled to 800 Million Users on PostgreSQL
ChatGPT scaled from zero to hundreds of millions of users while staying on PostgreSQL. Instead of migrating to NoSQL, OpenAI appli...
CP Systems Explained, Part 2: Quorums, Consensus, and the Price of Being Right
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series covering the CAP theorem and distributed systems trade-offs. In Part 1, we examined the CAP. the...
