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In PostgreSQL, autovacuum and autoanalyze exist to clean up dead tuples (old versions of...


This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built I am a.....


Three weeks ago I shipped a bilingual LMS. The architecture modeled one language as source and the.....


If you've ever migrated a Supabase project to the wrapped (SELECT auth.uid()) pattern, you know the....


tickr is a Postgres-backed outbox + worker pool for Go. You enqueue messages in the same transaction...


Similarity Search for Failure Diagnosis In the previous post, I showed how every saga...


The bill that arrives after the incident Picture the worst version of a Tuesday. You ship...


A concurrency bug that lost 85% of balance updates under load, and the optimistic-locking + bounded-...


Use Docker and pytest fixtures to spin up isolated PostgreSQL databases for each test run, catching ...


I ran pgrls — an open-source Postgres Row-Level Security linter I maintain — against four...


How steganography solved the eternal UUID performance vs privacy dilemma in PostgreSQL


The previous two posts in this series walked through how Queuert keeps job state atomic with your...

The previous section (1.3.3) looked at the work the rewriter does to fill empty slots with values an...


The expand-contract pattern, safe vs dangerous operations, and how to rename a column without breaki...


The real upgrade is your workflow contract: permissions, durability, and handoffs. The...


No prior database experience needed. This guide walks you through everything — what Prisma is, how.....


The single fastest way to wake up to a ransom note is to expose your Postgres port directly to the.....


There's a particular kind of conundrum that has derailed more architectural decisions than I care to...


If you're building a multi-tenant SaaS, this is the first real architecture decision that will haun...


Originally published on mihaibuilds.com. Cross-posting here because dev.to is where I read a lot of....


A reader asked how a collective knowledge layer handles two agents writing the same key in the same ...


The problem I am building Spanlens, an open-source LLM observability platform. Every call...

By the time 1.3 ends, the rewriter has let the Query tree through. Views have been expanded, RLS...


A slow query lands in your lap. You run EXPLAIN ANALYZE and get back a wall of indented text that...