Before getting into this one, an errata against the previous post. I said backup tools “can register as an archive_library and bypass archive_command entirely” on PostgreSQL 15+. That is what the feature was designed to enable. It is not…
The previous post on the Linux 7.0 pgbench regression ended with the same instruction every other Postgres performance post ends with: set huge pages. This post is the long version. If you have read the Postgres docs on huge_pages and…
Last year’s acquisitions have now shipped products, and for the first time it is possible to compare the Snowflake and Databricks “Postgres-in-the-lakehouse” strategies as real things rather than as marketing decks. The acquisitions:…

Yelp has completed a large-scale upgrade of its Apache Cassandra infrastructure, spanning more than 1,000 nodes, without any service downtime, offering a blueprint for managing stateful systems at scale. By Craig Risi