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TigerFS: A Filesystem Backed by PostgreSQL

Dev.to · Polliog 2d ago

TigerFS: A Filesystem Backed by PostgreSQL

TigerFS is a filesystem backed by PostgreSQL, built by the Timescale team. It mounts a database as a...

I Replaced ElastiCache with Valkey on ECS (And Cut the Bill by 70%)

Dev.to · Polliog 3d ago

I Replaced ElastiCache with Valkey on ECS (And Cut the Bill by 70%)

ElastiCache is a genuinely good service. Managed failover, automated backups, CloudWatch integration...

Your Node.js App Is Probably Killing Your PostgreSQL (Connection Pooling Explained)

Dev.to · Polliog 5d ago

Your Node.js App Is Probably Killing Your PostgreSQL (Connection Pooling Explained)

A few months ago I was looking at why a PostgreSQL instance was running at 94% memory on a server...

I Ditched Prisma for Raw SQL (And My Queries Got 10x Faster)

Dev.to · Polliog 5d ago

I Ditched Prisma for Raw SQL (And My Queries Got 10x Faster)

Prisma is genuinely good software. The schema DSL is clean, the type generation works well, and for a...

Your API Responses Are 40x Larger Than They Need to Be

Dev.to · Polliog 1w ago

Your API Responses Are 40x Larger Than They Need to Be

I was profiling a production API last year when I noticed something that should have been obvious...

I Removed Redis From My Stack and Used PostgreSQL for Job Queues Instead

Dev.to · Polliog 3w ago

I Removed Redis From My Stack and Used PostgreSQL for Job Queues Instead

Every Node.js project eventually needs background jobs. Send this email. Process this file. Run this...

PostgreSQL as a Vector Database: When to Use pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate

Dev.to · Polliog 1mo ago

PostgreSQL as a Vector Database: When to Use pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate

"Should we use PostgreSQL as our vector database?" I've heard this question a lot in 2026. pgvector...

PostgreSQL JSONB GIN Indexes: Why Your Queries Are Slow (And How to Fix Them)

Dev.to · Polliog 1mo ago

PostgreSQL JSONB GIN Indexes: Why Your Queries Are Slow (And How to Fix Them)

You added a JSONB column. You created a GIN index. Your queries are still doing sequential...

TimescaleDB Outperforms MongoDB for JSON Logs (100M Document Benchmark)

Dev.to · Polliog 1mo ago

TimescaleDB Outperforms MongoDB for JSON Logs (100M Document Benchmark)

When building Logtide, we needed to store millions of JSON log documents. The "obvious" choice seemed...

Server-Sent Events Beat WebSockets for 95% of Real-Time Apps (Here's Why)

Dev.to · Polliog 2mo ago

Server-Sent Events Beat WebSockets for 95% of Real-Time Apps (Here's Why)

Everyone defaults to WebSockets for real-time features. Most shouldn't. The reality: 95% of...

TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

Dev.to · Polliog 2mo ago

TimescaleDB Compression: From 150GB to 15GB (90% Reduction, Real Production Data)

When you're storing time-series data at scale, storage explodes fast. We hit 150GB in raw log data...

Building Real-Time Log Streaming with PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY

Dev.to · Polliog 2mo ago

Building Real-Time Log Streaming with PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY

I needed tail -f for a distributed system. The logs were in PostgreSQL. Users wanted to see them...

Making Redis Optional: Why I’m pivoting to a 'Postgres-First' Architecture and why chose Valkey as alternative

Dev.to · Polliog 2mo ago

Making Redis Optional: Why I’m pivoting to a 'Postgres-First' Architecture and why chose Valkey as alternative

I've spent the last few weeks rethinking the dependency graph of Logtide. Currently, if you want to...

Microservices Are Killing Your Performance (And Here's the Math)

Dev.to · Polliog 2mo ago

Microservices Are Killing Your Performance (And Here's the Math)

The promise: Microservices make your system scalable, maintainable, and fast. The reality: For most...

I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)

Dev.to · Polliog 3mo ago

I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster)

I had a typical web app stack: PostgreSQL for persistent data Redis for caching, pub/sub, and...

LogTide 0.3.0: Full SIEM Dashboard, C# SDK, and Our Roadmap

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

LogTide 0.3.0: Full SIEM Dashboard, C# SDK, and Our Roadmap

Three weeks after launching 0.2.4, we're excited to announce LogTide 0.3.0 — our biggest release yet,...

Building a Real-Time Log Viewer with Server-Sent Events and Svelte 5

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

Building a Real-Time Log Viewer with Server-Sent Events and Svelte 5

Real-time data is hard. When building LogTide, one feature was non-negotiable: Live Tail—the ability...

How we tripled User Activation with an Interactive Tutorial (Svelte 5 Case Study)

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

How we tripled User Activation with an Interactive Tutorial (Svelte 5 Case Study)

When we launched LogTide as an open-source, privacy-first log management platform, we faced a classic...

Why I chose Postgres (TimescaleDB) over ClickHouse for storing 10M+ logs

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

Why I chose Postgres (TimescaleDB) over ClickHouse for storing 10M+ logs

In the world of Observability and Big Data, ClickHouse is currently the undisputed king. It's...

Real-world Svelte 5: Handling high-frequency real-time data with Runes

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

Real-world Svelte 5: Handling high-frequency real-time data with Runes

Svelte 5 is officially out, and it introduces Runes: a completely new way to handle reactivity. Most...

I built an Open Source Datadog alternative because ELK was eating my RAM (SvelteKit 5 + TimescaleDB)

Dev.to · Polliog 4mo ago

I built an Open Source Datadog alternative because ELK was eating my RAM (SvelteKit 5 + TimescaleDB)

The Problem: Observability is expensive (or heavy) I love building side projects. But...