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OpenAI is Doomed (And PostgreSQL is the Reason Why)

Why the era of sending your data to a black box is over, and how a 30-year-old database is winning the AI war.

We Are Firing Data Engineers. PostgreSQL Does It For Free.

After spending exactly 45 hours over the last week forensically analyzing the cloud billing exports, infrastructure topologies, and…

The Serverless Database Is Doomed

I didn’t just write code. I analyzed 50+ startup post-mortems, cloud economics reports, and leaked infrastructure bills. Here is the…

The Great Migration Lie: Why PostgreSQL Might Bankrupt You

Let me be absolutely clear: migrating your entire stack to PostgreSQL is not a silver bullet — it is a financial landmine.

The Billion-Dollar AI Database Bubble: How PostgreSQL Swallowed the Industry Again

When I delivered the eulogy for Oracle’s bloated, closed, and exorbitantly priced empire last week, the industry reaction was explosive…

Encrypting PostgreSQL with LUKS on Linux

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You Don’t Need a Distributed Database. You Just Need to Learn PostgreSQL Properly

The industry is tearing itself apart in the Polyglot vs. Monolith database debate. But before you rip out your relational database to chase…

MongoDB is Officially a Legacy Database (And PostgreSQL Just Ended the NoSQL Delusion)

Why the database darling of the 2010s has been dethroned by the undisputed king of relational data, and why your next startup should…

NoSQL Was a Massive Lie (And PostgreSQL is Cleaning Up the Mess)

Why did the entire tech industry chase schemaless databases for a decade, and why are we quietly crawling back to SQL?

Why The Guardian Ditched MongoDB for PostgreSQL: Behind the Great Database Migration

How one of the world’s largest news organizations woke up from the NoSQL hype and went back to a traditional relational database. Here’s…

A Sincere Apology to Relational Databases (From a Recovering Over-Engineer)

Dear relational databases,

Why $1B Startups Are Secretly Firing Their Cloud Architects and Going Back to PostgreSQL

The Great Cloud Repatriation isn’t just a trend; it’s a data-backed rebellion against multi-cloud madness and architectural vanity.

How to Fix High Clock Drift in patroni-etcd on Air-Gapped & Enterprise Networks

If you are managing an etcd cluster for Kubernetes or any other distributed system, you might eventually wake up to a barrage of warning…

Psql Cheat Sheet

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Vector Databases Are a Billion-Dollar Scam (And PostgreSQL Just Killed Them For Free)

If you walked into a tech meeting over the last two years and used the words AI, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and Vector Database…

OID is Dead: Hacking Legacy Code for PostgreSQL 15

Upgrading to PostgreSQL 15 broke our legacy middleware. Here is how we fixed the “Column OID Does Not Exist” error live in production.

GDAL with Full Database Support (PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL, MySQL) on Rocky 9

Oracle Sharding Methods Compared to PostgreSQL

Staying Whole While Breaking Data: The Oracle vs. PostgreSQL Sharding Dilemma

Not Dead Yet: The Epic, Fully-Funded Comeback of pgBackRest

Fixing the PostgreSQL Timeline is Not a Child Error Using Patroni and pgBackRest

If you are sweating over the FATAL: requested timeline 139 is not a child of this server history error in your logs, you are in the right…