DATABASES

The startup Postgres survival guide from Hatchet, plus the HN pushback on monitoring, backups, and cascades, and what to internalize for production Postgres.

SQLite in production lessons from Julia Evans: the ANALYZE fix that cut a query 100x, batching writes around the single writer, and backups that work.

pgrust, a Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL, passes all 46,000+ regression test queries. What it delivers, what it does not, and the HN debate on AI-assisted rewrites.

PostgreSQL 19 beta features: SQL/PGQ graph queries, SQL:2011 temporal tables and REPACK CONCURRENTLY, plus what HN thinks and when to expect the release.

DuckDB internals explained: columnar storage, vectorized execution and an in-process design that let it rival costly clusters on a laptop, plus what HN says.