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Articles on Databases

Engineering notes, write-ups and the occasional opinion.

Databases

DynamoDB Guide

A practical guide to designing fast, scalable DynamoDB tables, indexes, costs, migrations, and production operations on AWS.

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9 min read

Databases

Database Migration

Move critical data safely with a structured migration plan, clear testing, minimal downtime, and expert engineering support.

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6 min read

Databases

NoSQL Basics

How document, key-value, column-family, and graph stores trade rigid schemas for scale, flexibility, and speed.

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2 min read

Databases

Vector Search in Postgres

Using pgvector for embeddings without adding another database, covering index choice, filtering, quantisation and the point at which you should move off it.

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9 min read

Databases

OpenSearch

A practical tour of how OpenSearch stores and scores documents, where teams usually go wrong with mappings and shards, and what it costs to run.

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9 min read