Fifteen years of databases, end to end
Fifteen years of database platforms at AWS, Oracle, Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB — and how they became CortexBolt, the autonomous operations platform.
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Database operations, deeply explained.
Working notes from the operational layer. PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MySQL, MongoDB — and what it takes to run them at production scale. No listicles. No filler.
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pgsonify: Hearing PostgreSQL Health as Elephant Sounds
pgsonify is an experimental MIT-licensed tool that sonifies PostgreSQL health metrics as real elephant recordings. How it maps stats views to sound.
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Workflows in Practice: Disk Space Monitoring
One webhook call checks a server's disk, records the reading, alerts the customer, and archives the run. A five-node CortexBolt workflow, step by step.
PostgreSQL16 min
The Economy Of Embeddings
An embedding has four costs, and one dwarfs the rest: RAM. Follow a single vector through its life and see where the database bill really comes from.
PostgreSQL8 min
PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY Is Not Durable — Here's the Fix with pg_durable
PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY loses messages when nobody is listening. See how pg_durable adds durable signals and workflows that survive restarts.