Database migrations are a regular activity for any app, but there are a few things that can help make them run smoother on a production app. Here are a couple of tips to help manage migrations better.

An interesting ‘infographic’ style image showing the various components of Postgres and how they stack together.

If you’re looking to simulate a production workload against a database once you make some changes, pgreplay can help. It parses Postgres logs and then replays them for you.

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Citus 7, which extends Postgres to easily shard your database, is here and introduces a number of new features including a foundation for distributed transactions, better framework integration, and Postgres 10 support.

The start of a series of posts on building more robust (and data accurate) APIs by leaning on Postgres’s transactional features.

What can be done when the PostgreSQL replication process is painfully slow for bigger databases? Here are some tricks to make things easier.

Postgres 10 is coming with some native table partitioning. While this was possible before it took more manual work. Here's a few links with an early look at what’s coming.

‘Timestamp with timezone’ is an awesome datatype but you need to take care to be explicit on your timezone lest you be stumped on data seeming off.

Microsoft’s Rohan Kumar on how they approach Postgres and the wider community.

An agent for the Pacemaker high availability cluster resource manager to let it keep tabs on Postgres instances.

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This could be used to get going with event sourcing without having to install any new software.