About

A home for people who care about data

DpkDB is an independent publication about databases: how they work, how to design for them, and how to keep them fast and healthy in production.

Production-first

Every article is grounded in real workloads — the query plans, outages and migrations that actually happen.

We love SQL Server and PostgreSQL as much as MongoDB and Redis. The right database depends on the problem.

No hand-waving. Runnable code, reproducible benchmarks and links to the official docs.

From your first SELECT to MVCC internals — each article is tagged by level so you always know where to start.

We're always looking for DBAs, data engineers and developers with hard-won lessons to share.

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