Database Insights

Deploy a production PostgreSQL HA cluster with Patroni and etcd. Covers configuration, patronictl commands, HAProxy integration, and failover procedures.

An honest comparison of MongoDB and PostgreSQL in 2026 — document model vs relational model, JSONB as a document store, ACID transaction trade-offs, horizontal scaling, licensing, and migration paths.

Set up PostgreSQL streaming replication from scratch. Covers primary configuration, standby base backup, replication monitoring, and manual failover promotion.

PostgreSQL 17 is one of the most impactful releases in years. Incremental backups, vacuum improvements, logical replication failover slots, and planner enhancements are all production-critical changes.

Aurora PostgreSQL offers sub-30-second failover and 15 read replicas but costs more per instance and adds per-I/O pricing. Learn when Aurora's HA wins over RDS simplicity with real cost modeling for 2025.

pg_dump takes 4 hours on your 200GB database. pg_basebackup takes 20 minutes and enables point-in-time recovery to any second. Learn to set up WAL archiving, take base backups, and execute a PITR restore.

Your PostgreSQL table is 120GB but only contains 40GB of live data. Learn to measure bloat with pgstattuple, understand why autovacuum falls behind, and reclaim space with pg_repack without table locks.

pg_stat_statements tracks every query's total time, call count, and cache hit ratio. Learn to enable it, find your highest-cost queries, hunt for cache misses, and measure the impact of every optimization.

EXPLAIN ANALYZE tells you exactly why your PostgreSQL query is slow, but reading its output is a skill most developers never learn. Learn every node type, identify the five worst plan patterns, and fix them.

PostgreSQL's pg_stat_activity view exposes every connection's state — but understanding what 'idle in transaction' means and why it's dangerous requires knowing the full lifecycle of a PostgreSQL backend process.

Use Neon for serverless PostgreSQL — database branching for dev/test, autoscaling, and cost model

PostgreSQL 17 finally adds native incremental backup support — allowing subsequent backups to capture only changed blocks since the last full backup.