James O’Connor

Kubernetes for Databases: Should You Run PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB on K8s? The push to containerize everything has reached the final frontier: the stateful database. For years, the conventional wisdom was simple: “Never run your database on Kubernetes.“ But is that still true? As Kubernetes (K8s) solidifies its position as the de facto operating system […]

Serverless Databases Explained: Pros, Cons, and When to Use Them You’ve built a killer app. It’s getting traction. Then, the dreaded 2 a.m. alert wakes you up: your database is maxing out its CPU. You scramble to scale it up, but it’s a manual, painful process. You’re not coding; you’re playing system administrator. What if