
When you’re running MongoDB in production, backups are non-negotiable. But not all backup strategies are equal. The gap between a good backup strategy and a bad one only becomes visible at the worst possible moment: when you actually need…

Today we're shipping the beta of Lakebase Search on Neon: hybrid vector + full-text retrieval via two Postgres extensions, lakebase_vector and lakebase_text. This post is the story of why and how we built it: IVF + RaBitQ instead of HNSW,…
Upstream MySQL published an out-of-schedule release this week with two high-severity CVE fixes. If you’re running Percona Server for MySQL 5.7 or 8.0 under Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS), the program we previously called Post EOL…
After more than 20 years working with PostgreSQL, I keep seeing the same problems surface at the worst possible times - bloat that sneaks up on you, replication slots quietly holding back WAL, transaction ID wraparound that nobody caught…