btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL
Performance

btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL 18

The btree_gist improvements in PostgreSQL 18 are one of the most practical performance wins shipping in this release for teams that depend on exclusion constraints, composite indexes, and nearest-neighbour search. The btree_gist extension lives in [...]
Tuning MariaDB for Cloud
Data Architecture

Tuning MariaDB for Cloud and Containerized Environments

A practical guide to tuning MariaDB for cloud and containerized environments — right-sizing the InnoDB buffer pool, handling cgroup limits in Docker and Kubernetes, taming ephemeral storage and network latency, and building stateful, observable database workloads.

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