Keeping high-volume and high-throughput data out of the main database for fewer operational headaches and faster recovery.

Operations in online databases are always a tend to be a little tricky to carry out. Renaming a table safely in Postgres isn’t too hard, but there is some technique to it.

Tracking improvements to Postgres partitioning since 2017. In just five years it’s gone from a non-feature to a very good one.

Go 1.19 has shipped. A few things I’d love to see next.

An ode to well-written READMEs. Detailed, but not overly so, and scannable with examples.