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How PgBouncer Fixes Your Postgres Connection Problem

Feb 23 · 7 min read · Part 1 covered why connection pooling breaks when you scale horizontally. This post is about the fix: PgBouncer. If you missed part 1: When you autoscale from 1 pod to 10 pods, each with pool_size=50,

Why Your Postgres Breaks When You Scale (And It's Not Your Queries)

Feb 23 · 6 min read · I gave a talk at SRE Hyderabad about why Postgres falls over when you horizontally scale your backend, even when your queries are fast and your database is healthy. The culprit? Connection pooling. Mo

Docker Image Optimization 101

Aug 6, 2025 · 2 min read · I wanted to revisit a post I made earlier on Linkedin because I keep seeing AI models and big apps being containerized into 4–5GB images. Please don’t do that. At scale, you’ll end up paying a lot for egress and dealing with a slow, bloated CI/CD pip...

Effective Log Monitoring: Using Grafana, Loki, and Promtail

Mar 16, 2025 · 2 min read · Introduction Monitoring logs efficiently is crucial for any modern application. Traditional log management in VPS can be complex. You have to SSH into instance and then look at the service logs but with Grafana, Loki, and Promtail, we can simplify th...