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Designing an Expiring-Points System on an RDBMS (with Benchmarks)
This is an English rewrite of an article I originally published in Japanese. I've run the design on PostgreSQL 17 in Docker and folded the measured nu…
Linux Fundamentals for Data Engineering
Introduction As a data engineer, most of your work will happen on Linux servers. Whether you are managing databases, running data pipelines, or proces…
PostgreSQL 2200G Error: Causes and Solutions Complete Guide
PostgreSQL Error 2200G: Most Specific Type Mismatch PostgreSQL error code 2200G ( most_specific_type_mismatch ) is a SQL-standard data exception that …
Securing PostgreSQL, in the order an attacker would try things
Postgres has a well-earned reputation for security. Roles, privileges, host-based authentication, SCRAM. The primitives are all there, and they're goo…
Using TimescaleDB and Collectd for observability
I have used many timescale databases over the years and have found most to be wanting. Often over complicated and under performant. PostgreSQL with Ti…
Build a URL shortener with Fitz: HTTP + Postgres + auth in 30 minutes
A step-by-step tutorial through Fitz. We start from fitz new , finish with a native binary running in Docker. No external dependencies. No pip install…
Self-Host Postgres or Use Supabase? Here's How to Decide
Short answer first: use Supabase if you want Postgres plus auth, realtime, storage, and a dashboard as one managed bundle. Self-host Postgres – or use…
RAG with Postgres pgvector in 2026: the full TypeScript pipeline.
RAG with Postgres pgvector in 2026: the full TypeScript pipeline. I spent a week evaluating dedicated vector databases before deciding to just use the…
Extended RUM in DocumentDB extension for PostgreSQL: Efficient ESR (Equality, Sort, Range) Queries
Last year, I examined RUM indexes within this series on multi-key indexing, demonstrating that they cannot substitute MongoDB's compound indexes for s…
Database Index Anatomy: Performance and Resource Management
Database Index Anatomy: Performance and Resource Management While developing a production ERP, when I saw query times suddenly double, I realized that…
Supabase basics with Node.js
Supabase is an open-source backend platform built around managed PostgreSQL. You get a database, auto-generated REST APIs (via PostgREST ), Auth, file…
How to Choose Database Indexes in 3 Steps
Database index selection, in my nearly 20 years of experience, has often been a critical topic that is either overlooked or misunderstood. Many develo…
ParadeDB NPM Package Seeks Feedback on Simplifying Postgres Integration with JavaScript via Drizzle ORM
Introduction: Bridging the Gap Between Postgres and JavaScript with ParadeDB The ParadeDB NPM package emerges as a targeted solution to a growing pain…
I got tired of writing the same history table boilerplate, so I built a Postgres extension
There's this problem I kept running into - first during my internship, then again on a freelance project I picked up afterward. Both of them used Post…
Getting Started with pg_durable: Durable Workflows Inside PostgreSQL
Modern applications demand long‑lasting workflows that can withstand crashes, restarts, and failures, often relying on external platforms. pg_durable …
Durable Workflows on Postgres: What "You Don't Need Temporal" Actually Buys You
A DBOS blog post titled "Postgres is all you need for durable execution" reached the Hacker News front page this week (306 points, 132 comments). The …
How I Cut 769 Database Queries With One Window Function
From Grafana to Real Performance Gains I noticed in the Grafana dashboard that GET /api/v1/dokter/public/jadwal-dokter was on average taking 1 second …
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling in FastAPI: PgBouncer vs. SQLAlchemy QueuePool vs. Render's Native Pools
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling in FastAPI: PgBouncer vs. SQLAlchemy QueuePool vs. Render's Native Pools Connection pooling sounds boring until your Saa…
Building LifeFast: A Solo Founder's Deep Dive into Fasting App Architecture
There's a specific kind of frustration that comes from using a health app that feels like it was built by engineers who've never actually used it. The…
PostgreSQL Connection Pooling Explained: How It Works and Why It Matters
Opening a new database connection for every query is one of the most expensive things your backend can do. Connection pooling is how you stop doing th…
PostgreSQL for Data Engineers: Indexes, Bulk Loads, and the Patterns That Actually Matter
The LedgerSync pipeline was inserting 1.5 million rows into PostgreSQL using pandas.to_sql() . It took four minutes per run. I switched to psycopg2's …
I built DBeast: a PostgreSQL MCP server that gives AI assistants DBA-level tools
AI assistants can write SQL. But writing SQL is only a small part of working with a real database. Most database work is investigation: What tables ex…
From pg-boss to Cloud Tasks: Fixing Queue Bursts and DB Connection Failures on Serverless
At Twio we picked pg-boss for our job queue, ran into trouble when we went serverless, looked at Pub/Sub, and ended up on Google Cloud Tasks. This is …
PostgreSQL 0A000 오류 원인과 해결 방법 완벽 가이드
0A000 feature not supported 는? PostgreSQL 에러 코드 0A000 은 현재 사용하려는 기능이 PostgreSQL에서 지원되지 않거나, 특정 컨텍스트에서는 사용할 수 없음을 의미합니다. 주로 트랜잭션 내부에서 허용되지 않는 명령을 실행하거나…
LLM Deal Flow Automation in CRM
In This Article The Deal Intelligence Gap Data Model Design Transcript Analysis with Claude Automated Follow-Up Drafting PostgreSQL JSONB Storage Putt…
Three SQL Injection Patterns That Still Ship in Node.js — And the ESLint Rule That Catches Them
TypeScript passed it clean. The code reviewer approved it. It shipped to production. Three months later, a penetration tester sent a report. The vulne…
What Is Database Sharding — and When Does Your Startup Actually Need It
Originally published at spectredev.xyz . Cross-posted here for the Dev.to community. Database sharding explained without the hype. Learn what it actua…
Stripe Webhook Idempotency in FastAPI: Handling Duplicate Events Without Double-Charging SaaS Customers
Stripe Webhook Idempotency in FastAPI: Handling Duplicate Events Without Double-Charging SaaS Customers I learned this lesson the hard way. Three mont…
Three Ways to Set Up CDC from Postgres to ClickHouse
You cannot run analytical queries on the same Postgres primary that serves your application without paying for it in CPU and connections. A read repli…