Posts in 2024
  • Pigsty v3.0: Extension Exploding & Plugable Kernels

    2024-08-05 in Releases

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    Get started with: curl -fsSL https://repo.pigsty.io/get | bash cd ~/pigsty; ./bootstrap; ./configure; ./install.yml Highlight Features Extension Exploding: Pigsty now has an unprecedented 340 available extensions for PostgreSQL. This includes 121 …

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  • Self-Hosting Dify with PG, PGVector, and Pigsty

    2024-06-22 in Postgres

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    Dify – The Innovation Engine for GenAI Applications Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Orchestrate LLM apps from agents to complex AI workflows, with an RAG engine. Which claims to be more production-ready than LangChain. Of …

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  • PGCon.Dev 2024, The conf that shutdown PG for a week

    2024-06-17 in Postgres

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    PGCon.Dev, once known as PGCon—the annual must-attend gathering for PostgreSQL hackers and key forum for its future direction, has been held in Ottawa since its inception in 2007. This year marks a new chapter as the original organizer, Dan, hands …

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  • v2.7: Extension Overwhelming

    2024-05-20 in Releases

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    The Pigsty community is thrilled to announce Pigsty v2.7.0, which has 255 unique extensions available, to the free PostgreSQL distribution and RDS alternative. We also have introduced some new docker-compose templates for Odoo, Jupyter, PolarDB, and …

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  • Postgres is eating the database world

    2024-03-04 in Postgres

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    PostgreSQL isn’t just a simple relational database; it’s a data management framework with the potential to engulf the entire database realm. The trend of “Using Postgres for Everything” is no longer limited to a few elite teams but is becoming a …

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  • v2.6: the OLAP New Challenger

    2024-02-22 in Releases

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    v2.6.0 Highlight Use PostgreSQL 16 as the default major version (16.2) Introduce ParadeDB extensions: pg_analytics, pg_bm25, and pg_sparse Introduce DuckDB and corresponding foreign data wrapper: duckdb_fdw Cloudflare CDN https://repo.pigsty.io and …

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Posts in 2023
  • S3: Elite to Mediocre

    2023-12-26 in Cloud Exit

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    Object storage (S3) has been a defining service of cloud computing, once hailed as a paragon of cost reduction in the cloud era. Unfortunately, with the evolution of hardware and the emergence of resources cloud (Cloudflare R2) and open-source …

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  • Database in K8S: Pros & Cons

    2023-12-06 in Database

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    Whether databases should be housed in Kubernetes/Docker remains highly controversial. While Kubernetes (k8s) excels in managing stateless applications, it has fundamental drawbacks with stateful services, especially databases like PostgreSQL and …

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  • PostgreSQL Convention 2024

    2023-11-27 in Postgres

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    Background 0x01 Naming Convention 0x01 Design Convention 0x01 Query Convention 0x01 Admin Convention Roughly translated from PostgreSQL Convention 2024 with Google. 0x00 Background No Rules, No Lines The functions of PostgreSQL are very powerful, …

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  • Reclaim Hardware Bonus from the Cloud

    2023-11-16 in Cloud Exit

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    Hardware is interesting again, with the AI wave fueling a GPU frenzy. However, the intrigue isn’t limited to GPUs —— developments in CPUs and SSDs remain largely unnoticed by the majority of devs. A whole generation of developers is obscured by cloud …

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