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#Postgresql

15 articles on Postgresql — news, releases, guides and analysis from the SourceFeed engine.

Tutorial 6d ago 0

Go Multi-Region on Postgres with AWS Aurora Global Database

Build a two-region Aurora PostgreSQL global database and switch primary regions with zero data loss.

Emeka Okafor

Your Web App Is Too Professional to Self-Host

Production-grade architecture becomes a support-ticket generator the moment strangers run your code on their own boxes.

Article · 6d ago1

Every MVCC Engine Fails. Postgres Just Fails Out Loud

The garbage bill for concurrent reads and writes is conserved — each database only chooses who pays, when, and how it breaks.

Article · 2w ago0

PostgreSQL Internals as a City You Can Walk Through

A Postgres expert vibe-coded a 3D engine simulator in a weekend, and it teaches the lessons outages usually do.

Article · 2w ago4

Scaling PgBouncer Beyond the Single-Threaded Limit

How to run a multi-process PgBouncer fleet using SO_REUSEPORT and peering without breaking query cancellations.

Article · 1mo ago0

Rethinking the Postgres Connection Pooler

Modern proxies are moving beyond simple socket multiplexing to fix the leaky abstractions of transaction-mode pooling.

Article · 1mo ago0

The Postgres Swiss Army Knife Is Not a Free Lunch

Before consolidating your entire stack onto a single database, understand the operational limits of the Postgres is enough philosophy.

Article · 1mo ago2

Stop the Linux OOM Killer From Wrecking Your PostgreSQL Database

Taming the Linux virtual memory manager with strict overcommit is the only way to prevent silent database crashes.

Article · 1mo ago2

Postgres Transactions Are a Distributed Systems Superpower

Co-locating workflow state with application data collapses distributed systems complexity into standard ACID transactions.

Article · 1mo ago6

Postgres 19 Is Quietly an Operations Release

The beta's headline is property-graph SQL, but the features that matter run your database at 2 a.m.

Article · 1mo ago2

Dynamic Database Credentials with HashiCorp Vault: AppRole Auth and Short-Lived Postgres Secrets

Stop hardcoding database passwords. Configure Vault's AppRole auth method and database secrets engine to issue per-application, auto-expiring Postgres credentials that your app fetches at runtime and Vault cleans up automatically.

Tutorial · 1mo ago0

PostgresBench Brings Transparency to Managed Database Performance

ClickHouse's open-source benchmarking harness lets developers run standardized pgbench workloads to compare hosted Postgres providers.

Article · 1mo ago0

Inside TimescaleDB's Columnar Compression Pipeline

How the hypercore engine transforms row-based PostgreSQL chunks into highly compressed columnar batches for time-series efficiency.

Article · 1mo ago3

PostgreSQL 19: Native Temporal Tables Are Finally Coming

Native application-time support in Postgres 19 eliminates complex exclusion constraints and simplifies historical data tracking.

Article · 2mos ago4

Zero-Downtime Deploys for a Production Web App

Ship new versions of a Kubernetes web app with zero dropped requests using correct health probes, rolling and blue-green strategies, and backward-compatible expand/contract database migrations.

Tutorial · 2mos ago0