Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

If your database is getting slower, your users don’t care why. They just want it to work. Meanwhile, you’re stuck dealing with the symptoms: sluggish apps, spiking resource usage, and support tickets piling up faster than your monitoring alerts can handle. Why PostgreSQL struggles under load Often, the problem isn’t with your queries or hardware; […]

Something’s slowing your database down, and everyone feels it. Dashboards drag. Reports run late. Engineers start rebooting services just to buy time. Nobody’s saying “the database is broken,” but something isn’t right. You know there’s a problem. What you don’t have is visibility. PostgreSQL isn’t going to raise its hand and tell you which queries […]

You don’t have time for database downtime. Whether you’re managing a high-traffic application, supporting business-critical transactions, or ensuring real-time analytics stay online, the last thing you need is a PostgreSQL failure that grinds everything to a halt. But let’s be real; high availability (HA) in PostgreSQL isn’t something you can just switch on. Setting up […]

You’re likely racing to enhance your applications with more intelligent, data-driven capabilities, whether through AI-powered models (which have moved into “must implement now!” territory), advanced search functions, real-time fraud detection, or geospatial analysis. As these demands grow, you face a significant challenge: efficiently storing, managing, and querying high-dimensional vector data within your existing database infrastructure. […]