26 articles tagged with Database.
The plan says -/+ next to your RDS instance and one attribute ends in "forces replacement". Why it happens, how to undo it without data loss, and the CI gate that stops it reaching apply.
GitLab lost six hours of data to one command on the wrong host. Linear lost five hours to one TRUNCATE CASCADE in a reviewed migration. The six guardrails that make that kind of mistake hard to make and cheap to recover from.
Perplexity built its own key-value store because DynamoDB's read path and bill stopped fitting 50 KB search items. Here is the checklist for when leaving is justified.
Both are fast in-memory stores, and both get picked by habit more than by requirements. Here is what actually differs and when each one is the right call.
Offset pagination is easy until your dataset grows or shifts under load; here's why cursor pagination wins for large, changing, and public APIs.
A practitioner's guide to choosing between serverless and provisioned databases based on cost, latency, connections, and load shape.
A practitioner's look at Cloudflare D1, the serverless SQLite database built for Workers, covering setup, read replication, limits, and fit.
A hands-on walkthrough of Turso and libSQL, from CLI setup to embedded replicas that put SQLite reads next to your users.
A practitioner comparison of the leading serverless databases by use case, cold-start behavior, branching, pricing model, and lock-in.
A practical look at when SQLite is a genuinely good production database, where it breaks, and the tooling that makes it viable.
A practical guide to stopping SQL injection with parameterized queries, ORM safety, least privilege, and layered defenses that actually hold up.
A single ALTER TABLE can queue behind one long query and stall every write behind it. Expand-contract is how you stop shipping outages with schema changes.
