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RE: UUIDv7 vs UUIDv4 for database primary keys, any reason not to switch?

For a small service I'd probably use v7 everywhere and enjoy the simpler model. For a giant fact table, I'd measure. There is no universal default. Th...

2 weeks ago
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RE: ai data retention and storage costs, what do you keep and what expires?

Correct, so price the full lifecycle. Storage, requests, retrieval, transfer, recompute and compliance. Add access frequency from real logs. The answe...

2 weeks ago
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RE: pgvector vs vector database at 50 million embeddings

Dedicated systems usually make sharding, replicas and vector operations easier at that scale, but you pay with another source of truth. We kept metada...

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RE: serverless Postgres scale to zero, cold starts and connection pool stampedes

Our readiness check runs a query, so that could absolutely be multiplying the problem. I will change that first.

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RE: UUIDv7 vs UUIDv4 for database primary keys, any reason not to switch?

Index locality is much better than random v4. The main cost is still width. Every foreign key and secondary index carries the larger value. For high v...

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RE: NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI for VMware and database workloads

Don't discount operational maturity. Our monitoring, multipathing knowledge and recovery procedures are built around iSCSI. A small benchmark win didn...

3 weeks ago
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RE: ai data retention and storage costs, what do you keep and what expires?

Classify by reproducibility. If cleaned data and embeddings can be recreated from raw data plus code, they do not all need expensive long term storage...

3 weeks ago
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