It is very common to see many infrastructure layers standing between a PostgreSQL database and the Application server.  The most common ones are connection poolers, load balancers, routers, firewalls, etc.  We often forget or take for granted the network hops involved and the additional overhead it creates on the overall performance. But it could cause […]
  • bahmanm
    2•11 months ago

    A bit over elaborating some obvious points but nonetheless a good read on how to interpret ClientReads.

    Monitoring databases and their performance used to be quite an intense and complicated effort. Luckily nowadays it’s just intense when you export the metrics to Prometheus and have nice dashboards in Grafana.

    Keep sharing such insightful links please!