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postgres

2 posts tagged “postgres”.

  1. 2026
  2. Durable workflow engines are not queues

    A queue delivers a message. A workflow engine has to remember what happened after the message was delivered, what the step returned, and whether the side effect it caused is allowed to happen again.

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  3. Connection pooling is a correctness decision

    PgBouncer in transaction mode is the default choice for a busy PostgreSQL service, and for good reason: it lets a few hundred application connections share a few dozen server connections.

    2 min read