2026-01-18
Vacuum signals you should log before blaming the planner
Wrap autovacuum metrics alongside your EXPLAIN archives for fair postmortems.
Priya Desai · PostgreSQL, operations
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Six long-form notes refreshed with cohort retros—no recycled listicles.
2025-11-04
CDC slot hygiene checklist for analytics handoffs
Logical decoding slots fail quietly—here is the ritual we rehearse weekly.
Mira Okonkwo · CDC, Kafka
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Window frames that survive messy event timestamps
Cohort retention queries wobble when clocks skew—use explicit frame clauses.
Leo Han · SQL, analytics
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Schema expand/contract retros that actually stick
Swapping columns safely needs a shared vocabulary—here is ours.
Ethan Roy · migrations, reliability
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SQL review rubric template you can fork today
Readable SQL is a team sport; rubrics keep feedback kind and specific.
Leo Han · culture, SQL
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Parallel workers without thrashing your NVMe budget
More workers ≠ faster scans when IO queues saturate—graph it first.
Priya Desai · performance, hardware
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