
Perplexity has migrated its search infrastructure from Amazon DynamoDB to CobbleDB, an internally developed key-value store in Rust. This change reduced latency and costs associated with handling large document batches. The new…

What a 4 TiB Azure Disk Taught Us about Slow Reads One of our customers spent most of a week tuning PostgreSQL to fix slow reads. They worked through shared_buffers, effective_cache_size, work_mem, and the rest of the checklist, and set…

You can't read a pg_dump file the way you read a table. To see what is inside, you normally restore it into a PostgreSQL server first. pg_restore and grep can list the tables without a restore, and even print a table's rows as raw text.…
I’m happy to share that I was a guest on the Rails Business podcast and the episode is now live. Here’s a recap of the topics we discussed. Engineering Work at Aura We spent most of the time discussing engineering work last year related to…