Posts in 2024
  • Self-Hosting Supabase on PostgreSQL

    2024-11-25 in Database

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    Supabase is great, own your own Supabase is even better. Here’s a comprehensive tutorial for self-hosting production-grade supabase on local/cloud VM/BMs. What is Supabase? Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative, a Backend as a Service …

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Posts in 2023
  • 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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  • NewSQL: Distributive Nonsens

    2023-05-07 in Database

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    WeChat Column As hardware technology advances, the capacity and performance of standalone databases have reached unprecedented heights. In this transformative era, distributed (TP) databases appear utterly powerless, much like the “data middle …

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Posts in 2019
  • Is running postgres in docker a good idea?

    2019-01-13 in Database

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    For stateless app services, containers are an almost perfect devops solution. However, for stateful services like databases, it’s not so straightforward. Whether production databases should be containerized remains controversial. From a …

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