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It's tempting to think about software performance in vacuum, disconnected from any inputs and outputs, abstracted down to optimizing latency or throughput.

In these times of interdependency and extreme specialization it does not come as a surprise that open source projects depend on each other in many ways.

PostgreSQL community conferences, as many other industry driven events, usually do not have proceedings or anything similar.

Everyone knows benchmarking is hard (and writing about benchmarking is double as hard), but have you ever asked 'why'?

My own personal white spot regarding BPF subsystem in Linux kernel was always programs performance and an overall introspection.

What is a quantile?

Recently landed in PostgreSQL, jsonb subscripting support doesn't look as exciting as some other improvements around jsonb.

What is your first association with the concept of B-tree?

Do not be afraid, this short blog post is about databases and does not contain any unreasonable metaphysical references.

It's not a secret that databases are damn complicated systems.

As such, there’s really no “standard” benchmark that will inform you about the best technology to use for your application.

“How to start” is always a difficult question, and jsonb isn’t an exception.

As such, there’s really no “standard” benchmark that will inform you about the best technology to use for your application.

I really don’t know how I lived before without pandoc.

Finally, I decided to replace my old laptop, and my chose fell on the Lenovo u430p.

This is a small notice about a very useful trick.

I’m doing a small revolution in my environment from time to time.

I’m at the beginning of my journey into the world of gnuchess.

A little bit about my new program-frankenstein.

Don’t be confused by the title of this post - I will tell you about my experience in the development of xmpp client xi.

There are a some cases, when we prefer to use a PostgreSQL schemas for our purposes.

Write programs that do one thing and do it well.

Some time ago I was faced with the need to implement the sharding in Django 1.6 .