Infrastructure on Danilo Falcão da Silva

PostgreSQL Stopped Being 'Just SQL' a Long Time Ago

Mon, 25 May 2026 17:45:00 -0300

Every few years someone publishes a blog post titled something like “PostgreSQL: The Everything Database” and the comments fill with people saying “well, obviously.” The thing is, it wasn’t obvious. In 2010, if you told a room full of engineers that the correct database for their document store, their geospatial queries, their full-text search, and their vector similarity lookups was the same 30-year-old relational database, they would have politely suggested you hadn’t used MongoDB yet.

AWS Lambda Still Matters in 2026: Glue, Burst, and Honest Trade-offs

Thu, 21 May 2026 18:00:00 -0300

I have spent most of my career running things that boot. Bare metal, VMs, containers, Kubernetes — boxes that come up, hold state, and need somebody to think about their lifecycle. AWS Lambda is the opposite of that mental model, and for a long time I treated it the way a lot of old-school infrastructure people treat it: useful for toy apps, fine for a Slack bot, not a serious tool.

Hetzner Isn't the Cheap Default Anymore — And the AI Boom Is Why

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:30:00 -0300

I’ve been running personal infrastructure on Hetzner for the better part of a decade. Cloud VMs for side projects. A couple of dedicated boxes for the things I didn’t want to babysit on AWS pricing. The calculus was always the same: pay a third of what the hyperscalers charge, manage it yourself, accept the lack of a managed-service safety net. The deal was very, very good.

On April 1, 2026, that deal got noticeably worse.