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Years ago I wrote about my trouble with a job queue in Postgres, in which table bloat caused by long-running queries slowed down the workers’ capacity to lock jobs as they hunted across millions of …

One of Go’s best features is not only that it does parallelism well, but that it’s deeply baked in. It’s best exemplified by primitves like goroutines and their dead simple ease of use, but extends …

Anyone who’s seen a couple different production database environments is likely familiar with the “soft deletion” pattern – instead of deleting data directly via DELETE statement, tables get an extra deleted_at timestamp and deletion is …