Tag: databases

All the articles with the tag "databases".

• RDS MySQL Blue/Green Upgrades: Don't Let Debezium Lose Its Place

  Updated: 15 Sep, 2026

  How to run a major version upgrade on RDS MySQL without breaking your Debezium CDC pipeline. Covers binlog position recovery, GTID auto-positioning, and how to verify you did not lose any changes.

• Streaming Aurora DSQL Changes into an Iceberg Lakehouse with Firehose

  15 Jul, 2026

  Aurora DSQL CDC is GA. Here's how to build a fully managed pipeline that lands committed changes in Apache Iceberg on S3 Tables via Kinesis and Firehose, and the record-format details you need to get right.

• Altering a big table online: ADD column with near-zero downtime on MySQL 8+ and Postgres 14+

  Updated: 21 May, 2026

  A practical, cloud-agnostic look at adding columns to large tables without downtime — what MySQL 8+ and Postgres 14+ actually let you do, the expand-contract pattern that beats native DDL alone, the OSS tools, and the managed-service caveats.

• Aurora to Redshift Zero-ETL: what actually replicates

  16 Feb, 2026

  A practical look at Aurora PostgreSQL Zero-ETL into Redshift — how NOT NULL really behaves, why your PostgreSQL indexes don't translate, and how retries stay idempotent without enforced uniqueness.