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When your Read Replica needs a motivation talk
Replication is one of those things that works perfectly — right until someone actually needs fresh data. That’s when your replica decides to reflect on life choices and drift a few seconds (or minutes) behind reality. Suddenly “eventually consistent” feels less like an architectural decision and more like a personal…
Stress Testing without the stress (for you)
Every database works perfectly — until users show up. That’s usually the moment when “it handled my local test” stops being a convincing performance strategy. So instead of waiting for production to reveal our optimism was misplaced, we’ll proactively apply some scientifically measured chaos. In this post, we’ll use k6…