Percona and HexaCluster have partnered to remove the hardest part of an open source database migration: getting off Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 or Sybase ASE with confidence, on a predictable timeline, without a multi-year consulting program.…

Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes. The migration used staged dual reads, parity validation, gradual traffic shifting, and decentralized failover…
It took six days to go from zero to isolated Postgres per tenant, provisioned the moment someone pays. A traditional Postgres setup would have been a full quarter of work.

Postgres can serve as the durable state store and coordination layer for workflows, eliminating the need for an external orchestrator. SKIP LOCKED enables concurrent work processing, primary-key checkpoints enforce idempotency, and leases…