The GNU C Library (glibc) version 2.28 entered the world on August 1st, 2018 and Postgres hasn't been the same since. Among its many changes was a massive update to locale collation data, bringing it in line with the 2016 Edition 4 release…
Learn why database performance falls off a cliff when your working set exceeds RAM—and three strategies to survive it, from vertical scaling to columnar compression.

The article discusses the challenges faced during a migration from a relational database to NoSQL, focusing on the importance of database sequences for unique identifiers. It outlines the development of a new sequence service using…
When I was younger, the culture war (in my bubble) was about transactional versus non-transactional engines, Postgres versus MySQL (MyISAM). Surely, I preferred the transactional concept. Data integrity and crash safety is super important.…