Could not agree more. 👏👏

Gotta love when this "full 2025-10-01 security patch level" is not a typo!

Depending on your Provider, regular exports might be a good idea (just in case). If you use Proton - proton.me/support/prot...

I have no idea about the details of this situation, but it's good practice regardless to not depend on a single company for everything. A company also can't allow their services to be used for obvious illegal activity 🤷.

Thanks for the kind words, and I'm glad to hear that!

Hopefully you enjoy the next season, it's a pretty big switch up from the previous two. 🤓

That's fair, and is very tempting. Especially considering it's the backbone of everything. Regardless, IaC has been a game changer. I wish I didn't ignore it for so long.

The main goal is high-availablity. I've been doing the same as you for the last year with a single-instance, and it's been perfectly fine. But it now seems like the weakest point in my setup.

I'm working on my setup, and I'm leaning towards two nodes with streaming replication + keepalived, a floating IP and pgBackRest. There are a lot of options out there with etcd, Patroni, PgBouncer, Load Balancer, but it just seems like a lot of moving parts + 3rd party software.

That's why I initially went with Swarm. I didn't want to overcomplicate my setup, but in reality, Swarm did. Glad to hear that's been your experience as well.

Question about your PostgreSQL setup in your recent blog post. Do you do any clustering?

The recent "how it works" blog post was 🔥

Still too early to tell from what I've read. Once the developers get their hands on it, they'll know better.

I am! If you ever have the opportunity to go, I highly recommend it. And with some of the terrifying things I learned, there absolutely will be some fresh content!