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When you’re running PostgreSQL with 100M+ rows, the difference between “it works” and “it flies” is all about tuning—but not the generic, copy-paste advice you get everywhere. Here’s the advanced, bat
Imagine this: Your high-traffic app is humming along smoothly. Most data requests are being served instantly from Redis or other, blazing-fast cache layer. But then — a cache key expires, and within milliseconds, 10,000 clients hit your backend at on...
In this post, I’ll walk you through how I built a semantic similarity search API using FastAPI, Sentence-BERT (SBERT), and PostgreSQL with the pgvector extension.This project began as a proof of concept (POC) to explore how seamlessly we can integrat...
If you’re indexing huge, append-only tables with naturally ordered data — BRIN can give you massive performance and space benefits compared to B-Tree. What is a BRIN Index? BRIN = Block Range Index A BRIN index doesn't index every row, unlike B-Tree....
When working with high-concurrency workloads in MongoDB, understanding how locking and concurrency control work is essential to maintain performance and data integrity. Here’s a quick overview of the core ideas: Key Highlights: Document-Level Lockin...