Postgres Until It Hurts: The Operational Case for One Database Doing Several Jobs
The pendulum swung back to one relational database for documents, queues, search and vectors: the case for it, and where a specialised system still wins.
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Premature Sharding: The Decision You Cannot Take Back
Sharding usually arrives years early and charges rent forever in lost joins, transactions and simplicity. What to exhaust first, and the signals that it's time.
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The Migration You Cannot Roll Back
Deploys taught us every change is reversible. Schema and data migrations are not, and teams discover which step was one-way during the incident it caused.
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