PGConf Germany 2026 took place on April 21 and April 22 2026 in Essen, Germany Organized by: Andreas Kretschmer Andreas Scherbaum Cornelia Biacsics Daniel Westermann Danilo Endesfelder Dirk Krautschik Julia Gugel Kai Wagner Sascha…

Molly Struve discusses a brutal six-day outage that nearly sank a company. She explains technical lessons like the importance of FMEAs, shadow traffic, and exercising rollback mechanisms. She shares why the human elements - widening your…

Here’s what we’ve done—and what we’re still doing—to improve our availability and reliability. The post An update on GitHub availability appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
archive_mode is the master switch for WAL archiving. With the last three posts under our belts — archive_cleanup_command, archive_command, archive_library — we now get to the parameter that decides whether any of that machinery runs at…