Database Insights

A production guide to PostgreSQL full-text search — building tsvector generated columns, GIN indexes, multi-column search with setweight, ts_rank scoring, websearch_to_tsquery, and comparison against Elasticsearch.

Build a production-grade PostgreSQL HA stack using Patroni for failover and HAProxy for connection routing

A production guide to AWS RDS Proxy — how it works, when to use it, IAM authentication setup, and the connection pool sizing rules that prevent Lambda-induced database overload.

PostgreSQL PITR lets you recover your database to any point in time — down to the second — by replaying WAL segments on top of a base backup. Here's how to set it up correctly.

Monitor PostgreSQL streaming replication lag, replication slots, and standby health to ensure HA readiness

A production guide to TimescaleDB — hypertable setup, automatic chunk management, columnar compression policies, retention policies, continuous aggregates with time_bucket(), and comparison against InfluxDB and Prometheus.

A complete guide to PostgreSQL replication — streaming replication setup, logical replication for selective table sync, synchronous standby configuration, monitoring replication lag, and failover with Patroni.

Configure PostgreSQL logical replication for selective table sync, zero-downtime upgrades, and multi-tenant setups

Optimize AWS RDS PostgreSQL costs without sacrificing performance. Learn instance sizing, storage class selection, backup strategies, and Multi-AZ optimization.

Monitor MySQL and PostgreSQL with Prometheus, Grafana, and PMM. Covers mysqld_exporter, postgres_exporter, alert rules, and production dashboard configuration.

Secure your MySQL and PostgreSQL databases — TLS, at-rest encryption, role-based access, and audit logging

Running a single PMM server is a single point of failure for your database monitoring. Here's how to set up PMM in an HA configuration with failover and shared storage.