There's a moment in almost every RAG project where someone asks the question that decides your next two years of ops work: "Do we actually need a vector database, or can Postgres just do this?" It's a better question than it sounds, because the honest answer isn't "use Pinecone" or "use Postgres." It's "it depends on numbers you probably haven't measured yet": how many vectors, how aggressively you filter, how much you care about the absolute ceiling of queries per second. Most teams pick bas... Read more ›
> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Introduction to Chainstack Self-Hosted > Deploy and manage blockchain nodes in your own environment with Chainstack Self-Hosted, giving you full control over data, security, and infrastructure. Welcome to the documentation for Chainstack Self-Hosted, a control plane for deploying and managing blockchain infrastructure in your own environment. #... Read more ›
Download our free template to create a service-level agreement with the performance and response time requirements that disaster recovery plans demand. Read more ›
LadybugDB optimizations targeting the performance bugs found in this research Read more ›
pgAgent has been my go to scheduling solution for quite some time. Sadly in 6 months it will be completely retired and the pgAgent UI in pgAdmin will be gone. The main reasons I liked pgAgent were: Cross Platform: I have a lot on windows and linux customers, so this was important. Nice UI in pgAdmin, so I could do all work with PostgreSQL and schedule things at the same time as well as check status of jobs. The database backend is PostgreSQL, my favorite database Supports Multiple Agents with... Read more ›
Jingra is an open source benchmarking framework that runs the same vector search workload across Elasticsearch, OpenSearch and Qdrant so you can compare engines under identical, reproducible conditions. Read more ›
Why moving from garbage-collected languages to memory-safe systems programming is the ultimate career level-up. Read more ›
Rust’s SIMD abstractions were not as safe as I’d like. Until now. Read more ›
The Landscape Has Changed When I was at Turnitin, we were still kind of riding the tail end of the dot-com boom. People were rushing to ship things, and brief outages were not exactly good, but they were considered a normal part of running software on the internet. If the site was down for a few minutes, you’d shrug, dig in, and fix it. That’s not really the world we live in anymore. Uptime is much more sensitive than it used to be. Five nines used to be the stretch goal – now four nines is s... Read more ›
Microservice Architecture is a distributed system design approach in which an application is decomposed into small, independently… Read more ›
A practical look at how Azure Cosmos DB, Azure SQL Database, and the new Azure HorizonDB are bringing AI directly into the database engine. Read more ›
Over the past two years, digital sovereignty has evolved from a policy discussion into a practical platform engineering concern. The EU Data Act has been fully applicable since January 11, 2025. NIS-2 and DORA already shape... Read more ›
When network links were slow, cloud and distributed database systems could rely on generic kernel abstractions and treat network communication as a black box. With today's fast cloud networks, this approach breaks down: database performance becomes limited by the CPU overhead of the kernel TCP stack. Replacing TCP with user-space UDP can reduce this overhead, but it requires reimplementing essential guarantees, such as reliability and ordering. ... Read more ›
effective_cache_size doesn't allocate memory, reserve RAM, or control runtime behavior—it merely whispers a number to the query planner to make it smarter… Read more ›
Delegates to the Texas GOP convention recently adopted a platform calling in-vitro fertilization destructive to fetal life. Read more ›
Pierre Zemb is a staff engineer at Clever Cloud where he's building data layers API-compatible with services like Redis, PostgreSQL, and etcd on top of FoundationDB. Read more ›
As a follow-up to last week's article around Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements... Read more ›
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Recently, I’ve been fascinated by the trend of building data storage systems on object storage. Systems like TurboPuffer are all the rage in the search space right now. New storage primitives like SlateDB make creating bespoke storage systems feasible for a single developer or small team. Read more ›
So, you adopted event-driven architecture because your system was a rat’s nest of coupling, and events were the answer to decouple it. But now debugging is a nightmare. You have events coming in out of order. You have retries causing duplicates and multiple different side effects. Local development is a pain. It’s frustrating, right? But… Read More »Stop Blaming Event-Driven Architecture The post appeared first on <a href=" Read more ›