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For most folks autovacuum "Just Works", transparently and in the background. For people with large volumes of UPSERTs or similar workloads with lots of activity against existing ro…

(Disclaimer: I was at Heroku from Jan 2019 - July 2022, supporting Heroku Data products for most of that time. I have no special insight into this latest news beyond what's being r…

I've been working remotely for ten years, in a city with a very small but friendly tech scene. A lack of local meetups doesn't always indicate that there's no tech scene, either - …

> Despite being an obvious usability hole, this has never been fixed. Well, which implementation of make should be fixed? The thing about these truly ubiquitous nix tools is that e…

That's true, but it also leads to bloated special purpose tools that take minutes to run, as described in the introduction of the article. Sometimes you've better off having someth…