No matter how diligent we are, things may break in production. We may deploy faulty code, run a slow schema migration, or simply face an increase in traffic that can bring our systems down. When things break around databases, developers often feel like they are at a loss. Let’s see 3 things that can bring us control of our databases.

Many companies dropped load tests. Even though for many years we relied on load tests as the only way to prevent scalability issues, we now have other ways. Let’s see what happened and why you should drop load tests too.

All big players in the market use PostgreSQL nowadays. Postgres is just the best and the most popular solution these days, no matter if it’s for startups or enterprise companies. But why is that? What makes PostgreSQL so great and why did companies abandon their enterprise-ready databases like Oracle, MS SQL, or DB2? Read on to find the answers.