
Uber introduced a high-throughput financial ledger processing system designed to handle hot account write contention at scale. Using 250ms batching, Redis coordination, and optimistic atomic updates, the system supports 30+ updates per…


I shared a chart, in 2022, showing where PostgreSQL contributor gifts are mailed to. Here's an updated chart (click to zoom in.) To quickly recap: the PostgreSQL community has been sending gifts to those who contribute directly to a new…
Learn why PostgreSQL reads 16x more data than your queries need, and how a hybrid row-columnar storage layout eliminates the bottleneck without changing your SQL.
Well, the world has officially ended. Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters was right all along, and we'll soon be experiencing "human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!" Pack it in everybody; we had a great run. The…