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The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems to Vitess using vindexes, enabling capabilities…
Benchmark data showing how TimescaleDB expands PostgreSQL ingest capacity, query speed, and storage efficiency for IIoT workloads at scale.
Google Cloud has outlined its recent technical contributions to PostgreSQL, emphasizing improvements in logical replication, upgrade processes, and overall system stability. The update reflects ongoing collaboration with the upstream…
Every database has to reconcile two uncomfortable truths: memory is fast but volatile, and disk is slow but durable. Postgres handles this tension through its Write-Ahead Log (WAL), which records every change before it happens. But the WAL…