Practical perspectives on databases, data engineering, cloud, operations and compliance, drawn from the systems we keep running. Our first articles are publishing soon.
A logical-object redesign across a regional estate freed 32TB and made queries materially faster. Here is the thinking behind the redesign, and how we sized the savings before touching production.
Replication lag is not just a performance number; for regulated platforms it is a compliance risk. How we redesigned OGG to eliminate a 48-hour gap.
The runbook, checks and rollback discipline behind zero-downtime patching, with zero post-patch incidents.
Moving an archival cycle from quarterly to monthly does more than tidy storage; it lowers risk and sharpens AML scoring. Here is why.
A practical framework for finding waste across three clouds without slowing delivery: right-sizing, commitment planning and tagging hygiene.
Most service desks log tickets. Fewer resolve them. How we structure triage, escalation and a living knowledge base to lift first-call resolution.
No noise, just the occasional, genuinely useful note from our engineers.