Database Insights

Compare CockroachDB, Google Spanner, and YugabyteDB — consistency models, PostgreSQL compatibility, and operational costs

Deploy Vitess for horizontal MySQL sharding — VSchema design, vtgate routing, and migration from single-instance MySQL

ProxySQL pools thousands of application connections into a small backend pool, splits reads to replicas automatically, and lets you change routing without touching application code or restarting MySQL.

Understand Google Spanner's architecture — TrueTime, interleaved tables, schema design, and cost model

A production guide to Citus — distributed PostgreSQL for horizontal sharding. Hypertable setup, distribution column selection, colocation for local joins, reference tables, and Citus vs native PostgreSQL partitioning.

pg_partman automates PostgreSQL partition lifecycle. This guide covers create_parent(), retention policies, partition pruning, and migrating existing tables without downtime.

Learn how JusDB optimized a TimescaleDB cluster ingesting billions of IoT readings monthly, achieving 10× faster writes and 65% storage reduction.

Build a data-driven capacity planning process using historical metrics, growth trends, and resource modeling

Use Spark with JDBC to read from and write to relational databases — partition strategies, predicate pushdown, and write modes

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.

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

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