Implementing text search in Postgres is trivial. You can do it as simply as this But like most simple things in SQL, it’s only simple when your data is simple—when you hit anything approaching scale, the simple things become hard. Full text search is precisely one of these cases....

You’re building a healthtech app. Maybe you’ve decided to take on the insane complexity of electronic health records, or maybe you’re building an app for doctors to communicate with patients, or perhaps you’re creating a platform for managing clinical trials. Whatever your specif...

Microsoft recently introduced a Visual Studio Code extension for Postgres database management. Similar in functionality to tools like PgAdmin or DBeaver, this extension embeds Postgres management directly into VSCode and comes fully integrated with GitHub Copilot, allowing it to ...

If you’re building a dev tool, template, or platform where users need a database, you’re probably familiar with the pain you can either ask them to bring their own, or build a full provisioning flow yourself. Beyond just provisioning it, your users will need to set up their schem...

Moving a Postgres database from one provider to another it’s tedious, even for simple migrations. You have to export and import dumps, match versions, check extension support… To take that friction out of this equation, we’ve built a tool the Import Data Assistant. Migrate Your D...

If you look at RDS pricing, everything looks quite affordable (storage, compute, backups) – so how are so many teams spending six figures on it? Usage is part of the story, of course, but those bills are also very inflated. At scale, there’s more going on. Scaling a database does...

Replit just launched App History, a unified timeline that lets you roll back to earlier versions of your app or even preview them live in the browser. Now, you can try multiple approaches when building with Replit Agent, knowing that every version of your app (code and data) is s...

Every engineering team needs realistic, reliable environments to test, debug, and ship software with confidence. The ideal setup sounds simple – clone your production database, run your tests, and move on. But “clone your production database” is easier said than done. Replicating...

TheBurningMonk.com. " > “Ephemeral environments” refers to the ability to create short lived copies of your system so that Developers can work in their isolated environments and make changes without affecting others. Test data does not pollute shared environments such as dev and ...

Snapshots are a critical safety net for any team running Postgres in production. If you’re using AWS RDS, you’re probably relying on them mostly as protection against accidental changes. But if your database grows to many terabytes, the experience of actually using those snapshot...