This article examines how managed database services deliberately suppress access to the physical replication stream, turning operational convenience into permanent lock-in. It makes the case for a cloud-neutral stack — PostgreSQL,…
New Brand. Same Independence. If you read today’s announcement, you know Percona has a lot to say about what’s broken in modern data infrastructure. Lock-in dressed up as openness. Costs that climb while control shrinks. Vendors who made…

Learn how to deploy PlanetScale Postgres and MySQL databases via Cloudflare and connect Cloudflare Workers.
I have just completed the first draft of the Postgres 19 release notes. It includes little developer community feedback and still needs more XML markup and links. This year I have created a wiki page explaining the process I use. The…