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A customer writes in: "my last three orders are missing." Someone has to open a database and look. We built an AI agent that does that part. It reads the ticket, forms a hypothesis, queries the customer's own systems, and writes up what it found with the queries attached as evidence. Useful. Also,
The decision took about nine minutes. It was the start of a new product — VirtualRx, a business-management app for small retailers in Lagos. Point of sale, inventory, invoices, the lot. I needed a database, I had a schema roughly in my head, and MongoDB let me start writing code that afternoon inst
There's a phrase I keep seeing everywhere in AI development: "We need an AI agent." Need to analyze documents? Build an agent. Need to automate a workflow? Build an agent. Need to interact with APIs? Build an agent. Need to write code? Build an agent. At some point, I started asking a diff
Hey everyone, We recently finished migrating 42 active automation workflows from a combined Zapier + Make setup onto a self-hosted n8n instance. Wanted to share the real-world TCO breakdown, architecture choices, and trade-offs for anyone considering the jump. ### The Financial Breakdown (Monthly):
At work, I kept writing the same thing: a few analytics tables, a cron job to rebuild them, and the same SQL copy-pasted into three models. Change one definition, forget to update one copy, and suddenly two dashboards quietly disagree. There’s `dbt`, which solves this problem for data teams, but it
The following scene is a composite on-call pattern, not a personal claim about one employer. A checkout query crossed its p95 budget during a mid-afternoon spike, and the reviewer copied the plan. The paste included actual rows, shared hit counts, and a filter on a customer email that should never l
#663 — September 2, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Read Your Own Writes Off the Primary: WAIT FOR Measured — Last week, we shared an item explaining what Postgres 19's WAIT FOR is. Now, Radim puts it to the test: naive replica reads were stale 992 times out of 1,000 even o
#662 — August 26, 2026 Web Version 🏖️ After a week of being Disneyed-out, I return tired, but more ready than ever to dive back into the (far less humid) waters of Postgres!__Your editor, Peter Cooper Postgres Weekly Eight Years of Postgres Advice, Re-Checked Against Postgr
#661 — August 12, 2026 Web Version 🏖️ We're taking a summer break next week, so the next issue will be on August 26.__Your editor, Peter Cooper Postgres Weekly Introducing sqlfmt: An SQL gofmt-Style Formatter — Postgres contributor Dimitri has developed his own way to style
#660 — August 5, 2026 Web Version Lots of videos from this year's PGConf.dev are now on YouTube and I've rounded up some highlights at the end of the issue!__Your editor, Peter Cooper Postgres Weekly COUNT(DISTINCT) Too Slow? A Guide to Fast Approximations — A thorough, han
Heroku Connect is a fully managed, bidirectional data sync service between Salesforce and Heroku Postgres that lets developers read and write Salesforce data using standard SQL. The sync is straightforward to set up and operates smoothly in the background, but when a field does not update as expecte