Database Insights

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

Build full-text search with MongoDB Atlas Search — analyzers, scoring, autocomplete, and relevance tuning

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.

Analyze real-world database schema designs from companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb. Learn practical patterns for e-commerce, social media, and IoT applications.

Build a MySQL CDC pipeline using binlog and Kafka — Debezium, Maxwell, or Canal — trade-offs and production setup

Use Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed workloads — consistency levels, partitioning, and API choices

Reduce AWS RDS MySQL costs by 40-60% with proven optimization strategies. Learn Reserved Instance planning, right-sizing, storage optimization, and read replica strategies.

A practical guide to database sharding strategies — hash sharding, range sharding, directory-based sharding — with trade-offs, resharding complexity, and decision criteria for MySQL and PostgreSQL.

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.

Achieve microsecond latencies at scale with Aerospike. Learn hybrid memory architecture, strong consistency, cross-datacenter replication, and use cases for AdTech and fraud detection.