The Engineering Calendar Is the Database Bill Nobody Tracks

PostgreSQL

By Matty Stratton

min read

Jun 02, 2026

The cost of the Optimization Treadmill doesn't show up on the database bill. It shows up on the engineering calendar. And it compounds in ways that are easy to miss until someone actually adds it up.

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Ignition and TimescaleDB: the Perfect Pairing

Time Series Data

By Doug Pagnutti

Apr 17, 2026

Ignition's SQL Historian stores tag data in Postgres, which isn't built for time-series workloads. TimescaleDB fixes that in the storage engine.

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