Postgres Performance Tuning Cheat Sheet 2026
Practical Postgres tuning cheat sheet. Config knobs that matter, indexing patterns, reading EXPLAIN ANALYZE BUFFERS, vacuum and bloat, connection pooling, and slow-query diagnostics.
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Postgres Partitioning in 2026 — Range, List, and the Patterns That Scale
When and how to partition Postgres tables. Range / list / hash, partition pruning, attach/detach, default partitions, and the gotchas at scale.
Postgres Replication and HA in 2026 — Streaming, Logical, and Auto-Failover
Production HA for Postgres in 2026. Streaming vs logical replication, Patroni vs pg_auto_failover vs Stolon, RPO/RTO tradeoffs, and the patterns that keep a primary alive.
Postgres CDC and Logical Replication in 2026 — Debezium, pgoutput, and the Outbox Alternatives
How CDC actually works in 2026. Postgres logical replication slots, pgoutput, Debezium, the outbox pattern, and how to fan out changes to Kafka, NATS, ClickHouse, OpenSearch, or your AI pipeline.
Distributed SQL in 2026 — CockroachDB, Spanner, Yugabyte, and When You Actually Need One
A practical 2026 guide to distributed SQL. The architecture behind CockroachDB / Spanner / Yugabyte / TiDB, when distributed SQL earns its cost, when Postgres + read replicas is enough, and the migration realities.
PostgreSQL MVCC, Isolation, and Locking — A Backend Developer's Guide
How Postgres MVCC actually works, the four isolation levels (and what each gives you), row vs advisory locks, deadlocks, and the transaction patterns every backend developer needs to handle concurrency correctly.
Drizzle ORM Deep Dive — Type-Safe SQL for TypeScript in 2026
Why Drizzle is the right TypeScript ORM in 2026. Schema-first design, end-to-end type safety, drizzle-kit migrations, relations, transactions, JSON columns, and the patterns I reach for in production.
PostgreSQL 18 — Async I/O, UUIDv7, Virtual Generated Columns, and What Actually Matters
A focused walkthrough of PostgreSQL 18 for application developers — async I/O, native uuidv7(), virtual generated columns, OAuth auth, EXPLAIN buffer reporting by default, logical replication improvements, and what to know before you upgrade.
PostgreSQL JSONB Advanced Patterns — Indexing, Performance, and Pitfalls
JSONB beyond the basics — GIN with jsonb_path_ops, partial and expression indexes, generated columns for hot fields, partitioning, jsonb_set rewrites, and the mistakes that turn 12ms queries into 4 seconds.
Production HTTP Service in Rust — Axum 0.8, sqlx, and Postgres
A from-scratch production Rust HTTP service. Axum 0.8, sqlx with compile-time-checked queries, structured errors, request tracing, layered middleware, and the exact project layout I use.