Column: Database Guru
Sovereignty & Self-Reliance
- Build a China-rooted, world-facing PG distribution
- Supply-chain trust: I won’t bet on absentee maintainers
- PG “export controls” and supply-chain trust
- Any domestic DBs that actually deliver?
- Stop embarrassing us when hyping “国产数据库”
- Open-source emperor Linus’ rectification
- Second national DB test list: what now?
- Taxi vicious cycle & domestic DB death loops
- Can domestic DBs actually fight?
- Is国产数据库 another Great Leap Forward?
- Is China’s PG contribution basically zero?
- Is DB tech really “stuck at the neck”?
- Which EL distros actually work?
- What kind of “self-control” do we actually need?
Industry Insight
- Open data standards: Postgres, OTel, Iceberg
- The lost decade of “small data”
- SaaS is dead? AI era starts from the database
- Distributed DBs are a fake requirement
- Claude Code leak: the truth behind MCP hype
- When PG fell in love with DuckDB
- HTAP: a show with no applause
- Seven databases in seven weeks @ 2025
- Future DBs on modern hardware
- PolarDB at $20/mo: what should DBs cost?
- Whoever integrates DuckDB best wins OLAP
- Are vector DBs cooling off?
- Reclaim hardware dividends
- Are distributed DBs a fake need?
- Database hierarchy of needs
DBA / RDS
- We’re not short of DB kernels, we’re short of DBAs who can wield them
- This time the database really exploded—and paging people didn’t help
- How to page people when the DB blows up?
- Optimize the carbon-based BIO core before the silicon CPU core
- Should you put databases on Kubernetes?
- Should databases live in Docker?
- Are cloud DBs a tax on IQ?
- Cloud RDS: from dropping tables to skipping town
- Will DBAs be eliminated by cloud?
- Rebuttal: “Why you shouldn’t hire DBAs”
- Why are you still hiring DBAs?
- Is DBA still a good job?
PostgreSQL Ecosystem
- Why PG will dominate the AI era
- Build a China-rooted, world-facing PG distro
- Can PG18 run in production now?
- Supply-chain trust: stop betting on absent maintainers
- Don’t run production PG in Docker
- PG Extension Cloud unlocks the “complete” PG
- Beware new storage engines
- Databricks buys another PG extension shop
- Whoever integrates DuckDB wins OLAP
- …and dozens more posts on PG events, tools, hardware, and conferences (see the Chinese list for the full roster).