Architecture Archives

Scaling IoT to Billions of Points: A 6-Month InfluxDB Field Report

May 9, 2026

Real-world lessons from migrating 1,200 IoT sensors from PostgreSQL to InfluxDB. Learn why B-Trees fail at scale and how downsampling can reduce your storage costs by 85%.

Database

Stop Over-Engineering: High-Performance PostgreSQL Search without Elasticsearch

April 20, 2026

Is Elasticsearch overkill for your app? Learn how we achieved sub-100ms search on 1.2M rows using PostgreSQL's native GIN indexes and tsvector.

Database

OLAP vs OLTP: Why Your Analytical Queries are Killing Production

April 6, 2026

Is a single query crashing your app? Learn the difference between OLTP and OLAP, why row storage fails at scale, and how to build a stable data architecture.