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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…
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.…