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PostgreSQL 2026

Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Migrations in Laravel

ALTER TABLE is a loaded weapon in production. Here are the field-tested recipes that keep multi-million-row tables online while their schema changes underneath them.

Oct 1, 2026 9 min read Read

PostgreSQL 2026

Designing Multi-Tenant Schemas in PostgreSQL

Shared schema with a tenant_id, schema-per-tenant, or separate databases? A decision framework based on where the real costs actually appear.

Jul 9, 2026 8 min read Read

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Zero-Downtime PostgreSQL Migrations in Laravel

Designing Multi-Tenant Schemas in PostgreSQL

Notes from the trenches