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Partition attach locks and the bloat we didn't see coming
We moved a 1.2TB table to native range partitioning. The migration was the easy part.
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What they don't tell you about SQLite WAL in production
WAL mode is a huge usability win for SQLite, but it has teeth that bite during backups, fsync, and NFS.
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TIL: histogram_quantile needs a rate, not a raw counter
Forgetting the rate() inside histogram_quantile gives you weird-looking percentiles. Here's why.
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SLO math for tired engineers
A practical take on error budgets when your team has three people, one of whom is on vacation.