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Notes on Postgres performance, cost, and operations.

EngineeringMay 28, 2026by Dana Whitfield6 min read

Why we put Postgres on local NVMe

What network-attached storage costs you in p99 latency, and what changes when the disk is local.

CostApr 16, 2026by Marcus Lindqvist7 min read

The real price of AWS RDS at 8 GB

Adding up Multi-AZ, provisioned IOPS, RDS Proxy and a support plan, and what you actually pay each month.

PostgresMar 9, 2026by Priya Nair8 min read

Point-in-time recovery, explained

How WAL archiving lets you rewind to any second, and how to actually test that it works.

MigrationsFeb 20, 2026by Tomás Herrera9 min read

Moving off Heroku Postgres with near-zero downtime

The replicate-then-cutover playbook we run with customers.

AIJan 14, 2026by Sofia Eriksson10 min read

pgvector in production: a practical start

Schema, indexing choices and the gotchas of vector search on Postgres.

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