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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Almost every notable managed Postgres provider bundles a connection pooler, giving us a strong hint that connection management is a product problem rather than a user problem.
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Published fragment Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?, on how nearly every notable managed Postgres provider bundles a connection pooler, giving us a strong hint that connection management is a product problem rather than a user problem.
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Published Migration fatigue, and how LLMs help us avoid it, on how we used an LLM to optimize a core query in active job rescue. The optimized version ran up to 130x faster compared to baseline, and prevented exasperated users knocking on our doors with p
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River binaries will get 10 kB lighter
River v0.43 removes test-only transitive dependencies from non-test builds, shrinking Go binaries that include River by about 10 kB.
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Published fragment River binaries will get 10 kB lighter, on removing accidental test-only transitive dependencies that added about 10 kB to every Go binary built with River.
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River v0.41 now supports Turso, a ground-up rewrite of SQLite in Rust that aims for full SQLite compatibility.
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pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast
Postgres database templates make pgtestdb's per-test database isolation remarkably quick, around 100 ms of setup time, and within spitting distance of River's schema-based approach.
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Published fragment pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast, on how Postgres template databases enable database-per-test isolation in around 100 ms, within spitting distance of River's schema-based approach.
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I used to add links by hand
On how LLMs now drive most of this blog's workflows, replacing what used to be a lot of small, manual edits.
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Published fragment I used to add links by hand, on how LLMs now drive most of this blog's workflows, replacing what used to be a lot of small, manual edits.
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