PostgreSQL Stories
PostgreSQL is reliable until it is not. These stories cover missing indexes, bloat, replication lag, and the moments engineers discovered something important about their database the hard way.
3 stories
A Five-Person Startup Used Kubernetes for the Boring Parts and Built a Separate Control Plane for Everything Humans Waited On
“We were a five-person startup building a platform for browser-based applications that give each user a dedicated backend process. That meant we had two very different kinds of oper...”
The Wrong Host Deleted Our Primary Postgres and Exposed Every Backup Assumption We Had
“We were a fast-growing Series B company running a hosted Git collaboration and CI platform for millions of users. In early 2017, our production database design was still painfully ...”
Black Friday, One Missing Index, and 53 Minutes of Checkout Pain
“I was the primary on-call engineer for a mid-size e-commerce company doing roughly 50k orders a day outside of peak season. Checkout lived in a Node.js monolith on ECS with Postgre...”