PostgreSQL 18: Unleashing Speed and Radical Observability

Oct 14, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 3 min read

When PostgreSQL 18 arrived this fall, database communities everywhere focused on its headline features: screaming-fast asynchronous I/O, smarter indexing, new develope...

PostgreSQL at 29: The Database That Refuses to Fade — and Keeps Winning

Jul 16, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 3 min read

How many technologies in your stack today will still matter three decades from now? Not many. In tech, 30 years might as well be eternity. Yet here we are, PostgreSQL...

Understanding Transaction Wraparound in PostgreSQL: What, Why, and a Real-World Case

Jun 13, 2025 | Veerendra Pulapa | 2 min read

Introduction PostgreSQL is a powerful and widely-used open-source relational database system. One of the lesser-known but critical concepts every DBA and developer wo...

Architecting PostgreSQL HA: Patroni vs repmgr vs Native Streaming

May 19, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 2 min read

Can your PostgreSQL survive a node failure—without waking your team at 3 AM? That’s the real test of High Availability (HA). When a PostgreSQL instance fails—and it w...

Neon, Stateless Postgres, and the $1 Billion Wake-Up Call for the Database Industry

May 19, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 3 min read

When I first heard about Databricks acquiring Neon, I had to pause and absorb what this really meant. A billion-dollar acquisition — for a company reimagining PostgreS...

Optimizing PostgreSQL Performance: Top Configuration Tweaks

Mar 02, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 3 min read

Ever waited too long for a query to run, only to realize your database is struggling with inefficient indexing and high resource consumption? If so, you're not alone. ...

How to Configure PostgreSQL Synchronous Replication

Feb 19, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 3 min read

Data integrity is non-negotiable in high-availability PostgreSQL environments. What happens if a primary database crashes before its changes are propagated to the stan...

Using Patroni for PostgreSQL High Availability

Feb 18, 2025 | Ashnik Team | 2 min read

Imagine this: your PostgreSQL database suddenly goes down, and your application grinds to a halt. Transactions are lost, users are frustrated, and your team scrambles ...

Upgrade to PostgreSQL 17: Key Features You Should Know

Oct 23, 2024 | Veerendra Pulapa | 3 min read

PostgreSQL 17, released in September 2024, significantly enhances performance, security, backup management, and developer usability. In this blog post, we'll explore t...