Author
Founder, CortexRidge
15+ years leading database engineering teams. Built and operated PostgreSQL platforms across AWS, Oracle (OCI PostgreSQL), Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB. Author of the PL/pgSQL book. Now building CortexBolt at CortexRidge.
Use PostgreSQL ALTER FUNCTION SET work_mem to stop one function's sorts spilling to disk without a global change. A production fix: 150 GB a day to 0.
pgsonify is an experimental MIT-licensed tool that sonifies PostgreSQL health metrics as real elephant recordings. How it maps stats views to sound.
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.
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.
PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY loses messages when nobody is listening. See how pg_durable adds durable signals and workflows that survive restarts.
Fifteen years of database platforms at AWS, Oracle, Tessell, OpenSCG, and EnterpriseDB — and how they became CortexBolt, the autonomous operations platform.