Just got home from KubeCon. One of my big goals for the trip was to make some progress in a few areas of postgres and kubernetes – primarily around allowing more flexible use of the linux page cache and avoiding OOM kills with less hardware overprovisioning. When I look at Postgres on Kubernetes, I think … Continue reading
Many experienced DBAs joke that you can boil down the entire job to a single rule of thumb: Don’t lose your data. It’s simple, memorable, and absolutely true – albeit a little oversimplified. Mark Porter’s Cultural Hint “The Onion of our Requirements” conveys the same idea with a lot more accuracy: We need to always make sure we … Continue reading
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