A file in a bucket is just bytes; when you upload it, there is often a job to do next with that file, and that job usually involves Postgres - a `files` row, a status, a thumbnail key. That is a perfect Neon Functions job; the missing…
A recent question on the community channels described a difficult situation: a standby had been promoted with archive_mode=off, and restarting the new primary was something the team wanted to avoid. Could they enable archiving on a…

It’s been a month since I published the first part of this research, and interest from the Postgres community has been higher than I expected. Most vendors I contacted were shy to respond, so the Databricks team’s blog post Collaboration…
ClickHouse released WalShadow last week, and it does something very… brave: it replicates PostgreSQL into ClickHouse without using logical decoding at all. It reads the physical WAL stream, the same bytes a streaming replica gets, decodes…