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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of presenting at the Postgres User Group Estonia, and that was a delightful experience! Many thanks to Ervin Weber, who literally spent three years trying to make it happen. I was happy to give back to one of…
Nested loop joins are PostgreSQL's most notorious performance disaster—but only when the planner misestimates row counts.
When you’re running MongoDB in production, backups are non-negotiable. But not all backup strategies are equal. The gap between a good backup strategy and a bad one only becomes visible at the worst possible moment: when you actually need…
Today we're shipping the beta of Lakebase Search on Neon: hybrid vector + full-text retrieval via two Postgres extensions, lakebase_vector and lakebase_text. This post is the story of why and how we built it: IVF + RaBitQ instead of HNSW,…