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KubeCon 2025: Bookmarks on Memory and Postgres

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ November 16, 2025 ⋅ Leave a comment

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 →

Challenges of Postgres Containers

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ December 31, 2024 ⋅ Leave a comment

Many enterprise workloads are being migrated from commercial databases like Oracle and SQL Server to Postgres, which brings anxiety and challenges for mature operational teams. Learning a new database like Postgres sounds intimidating. In practice, most of the concepts directly transfer from databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Transactions, SQL syntax, explain plans, connection management, … Continue reading →

Kubernetes Requests and Limits for Postgres

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ September 22, 2024 ⋅ 1 Comment

As Joe Drumgoole said a few days ago: so many Postgres providers. Aiven, AWS, Azure, Crunchy, DigitalOcean, EDB, GCP, Heroku, Neon, Nile, Oracle, Supabase, Tembo, Timescale, Xata, Yugabyte… 🤯 I’m sure there’s more I missed. And that’s not even the providers using Postgres underneath services they offer with a different focus than Postgres compatibility. (I … Continue reading →

November/December Highlights

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ January 2, 2014 ⋅ 1 Comment

In the Oracle technical universe, it seems that the end of the calendar year is always eventful. First there’s OpenWorld: obviously significant for official announcements and insight into Oracle’s strategy. It’s also the week when many top engineers around the world meet up in San Francisco to catch up over beers – justifying hotel and … Continue reading →

OSP #2c: Build a Standard Platform from the Bottom-Up

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ December 2, 2013 ⋅ 1 Comment

This is the fourth of twelve articles in a series called Operationally Scalable Practices. The first article gives an introduction and the second article contains a general overview. In short, this series suggests a comprehensive and cogent blueprint to best position organizations and DBAs for growth. This article – building a standard platform – has … Continue reading →