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The Real Cost of a Single Insert in Postgres

Originally published on September 11, 2026. Written by John Shi. A 40-byte sensor reading does not cost 40 bytes to store. On a table with three indexes, Postgres writes four separate WAL records for

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Is It Safe to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Production Database?

Originally published on September 8, 2026. Written by Nicole Ghalwash and Erin Mikael Staples. The direct answer No, giving an AI agent unrestricted access to a production database is not safe. Your A

Oct 12 · 19 min readtigerdata.hashnode.dev

Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed TimescaleDB Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

Originally published on September 3, 2026. Written by Nicole Ghalwash. Running TimescaleDB on Azure means choosing between three paths: self-hosting the Apache 2 licensed edition, using the TimescaleD

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Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You

Originally published on September 2, 2026. Written by John Shi. A Postgres table that has never run a single UPDATE can still carry 20% dead space. Bloat is taught as an update-and-delete problem, so

Sep 28 · 10 min readtigerdata.hashnode.dev

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era

Originally published on September 1, 2026. Written by Ajay Kulkarni. There are still some fundamental truths that won't change. LLMs are making it dramatically easier to build software, so yes, we're

Sep 21 · 5 min readtigerdata.hashnode.dev

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Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era

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The Real Cost of a Single Insert in Postgres

Is It Safe to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Production Database?

Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed TimescaleDB Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era

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The Real Cost of a Single Insert in Postgres

Is It Safe to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Production Database?

Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed TimescaleDB Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era

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Tiger Data's blogs

The Real Cost of a Single Insert in Postgres

Is It Safe to Give an AI Agent Access to Your Production Database?

Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed TimescaleDB Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

Reading Table Bloat Before It Reads You

Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era