A startup's Postgres survival guide

Sources: Hatchet blog, HN 49005787
Summary: A practitioner guide covers running Postgres from an early startup through scale: schema normalization and design, connection and pool management, index and query pitfalls, migration practice, and the failure modes worth alerting on. It is opinionated experience rather than benchmarked analysis.
Comments: HN commenters argue it under-weights monitoring, alerting, and a backup-and-restore plan as day-one requirements, and warn against letting an ORM auto-generate the schema.
Why it matters: It consolidates the recurring operational mistakes teams hit on a single dominant database into one checklist.