Mini-review of James Cameron’s return to Pandora after 15 years.

Using goleak to find leaks early and avoid production pain.

Simplifying and rebooting an old project which was a good idea that deserved better.

Keeping high-volume and high-throughput data out of the main database for fewer operational headaches and faster recovery.

Operations in online databases are always a tend to be a little tricky to carry out. Renaming a table safely in Postgres isn’t too hard, but there is some technique to it.