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Scaling Postgres to 10 TB without sharding

Most teams shard their database too early and pay the complexity cost for years. Stratum Managed Postgres is designed to push the single-instance ceiling as far as possible — to 10 TB and beyond — using connection pooling, read replicas, and intelligent query routing before a shard boundary ever appears.

Apr 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Point-in-time recovery: backups you can bet on
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Point-in-time recovery: backups you can bet on

A backup you have never restored is just a rumour. Point-in-time recovery turns "we think we can recover" into a number you can prove.

Jan 28, 2026 · 1 min read
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Provisioning Postgres read replicas without downtime

Read replicas absorb query load and give you a hot standby for failover. Here is how we provision them across regions, keep replication lag under a second, and promote a replica without dropping a single connection.

Sep 14, 2021 · 1 min read
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Blue-green database migrations at scale

Schema changes are the scariest deploys of all. We run expand-and-contract migrations behind a feature flag, keep both schema versions live, and cut over only once the new path is fully verified.

Sep 14, 2021 · 1 min read
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