Engineering
Notes from the engineers building the Datacake IoT platform — architecture, infrastructure, and the occasional post-mortem.
Upgrading a live TimescaleDB from Postgres 15 to 18 without taking reads offline
How a forced database upgrade turned into a dual-write layer that we now get to keep.
Post-Mortem: Service Degradation on March 14, 2024
Insights into the service degradation of March 14, 2024 — what happened during a TimescaleDB hypertable migration, how we traced it, and what we changed afterwards.