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Designing Zero-Downtime Migration Pipelines: Moving Production Databases Without Data Loss

How enterprise engineering teams migrate multi-terabyte transactional PostgreSQL databases with zero downtime: log-based Change Data Capture (CDC), asynchronous shadow validation, and atomic connection pool pausing.

#Database Migrations #Zero-Downtime #PostgreSQL #Change Data Capture

9/24/2026

15 min

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PostgreSQL vs. Dedicated Vector Stores: When Can Postgres Handle Your Embeddings?

The hidden operational tax of running dedicated vector databases alongside your primary database. How PostgreSQL 16, pgvector 0.7+, and HNSW indexing deliver sub-8ms vector search without dual-write synchronization bugs.

#PostgreSQL #pgvector #Vector Search #HNSW

9/24/2026

14 min

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