From Playbook to Powerhouse: Scaling up with strategy
Every startup begins with a spark, an idea, a Founder’s vision, and a small, scrappy team ready to do whatever […]
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Sustainability Strategy — Endurance over explosions
This is the best TL; DR I could up with: – Financial sustainability: Unit economics and capital efficiency– Organizational sustainability:
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Understanding PostgreSQL system catalogs for Troubleshooting
When something goes wrong in PostgreSQL, most people first look at logs, queries, or monitoring dashboards. But there’s another very
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Synergy Strategy: Winning Together as a Startup
At OpenSource DB, we believe startups don’t win by going solo — they scale by building strong alliances. Most people
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Simplify Strategy: Less but Better
Simplify strategy: Less but betterMost teams believe more = better.More goals. More projects. More metrics. Reality: That ambition often backfires.
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Building Feedback Loops Across Teams for Faster Learning and Iteration
Week 4 – In fast-moving environments, speed alone isn’t enough—learning quickly and iterating effectively is what separates high-performing teams from
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Setting Up Repeatable Processes: The Freedom to Focus on What Matters
Week 3 – Architecting August blogpost – As we celebrate Independence Day, we often think about freedom in terms of
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The Founder’s Dilemma: Familiar vs Fit-for-Future
Choosing the Right Tech Stack: Balancing the Now vs the NextWhen you’re building a product — especially in a startup
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Designing Startup Systems That Scale: Hiring, Tech, Culture, Ops
Architecting August – Week 1 In the zero-to-one phase, most startup decisions are reactive.You hire fast. You build fast. You
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pgroll in Action: Client-Side Evaluation of Zero-Downtime Schema Migrations
Introduction Schema migrations in PostgreSQL are notoriously hard to get right, especially when your systems require zero downtime. Anyone who’s
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Sell Before You Scale: GTM for Founders Who Hate Selling
🧩Week 4 Theme: Sales and GTM Jumpstarts for Early-Stage Startups“Jump-start July” Series – Insights and tactics to accelerate early wins
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Upgrading PostgreSQL 12.15 to 14.18 in RHEL 8 Air-Gapped Systems: A Comprehensive Guide – Part-2
This is the part 2, continuation of the blog Upgrading PostgreSQL 12.15 to 14.18 in RHEL 8 Air-Gapped Systems: A
From Solo to Squad: Building the Startup Core Team Right
🧩 Jump-start July — Week 3From Solo to Squad: Building the Startup Core Team RightThe first people you hire aren’t
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Upgrading PostgreSQL 12.15 to 14.18 in RHEL 8 Air-Gapped Systems: A Comprehensive Guide – Part-1
Recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade one of my client’s PostgreSQL databases. The environment is a High availability setup
Gaining Traction in 30/60/90 Days
🚀 The First 90 Days: Finding Traction Without Burning Out Jump-start July – Week 2You don’t need a million users
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How We solved prepared statement issues with PgBouncer’s pooling modes
When leveraging PostgreSQL for your application, PgBouncer is the go-to connection pooler for high concurrent workloads. You might already be
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How to Design Your MVP for Speed & Feedback
We’re kicking off Jump-start July with one of the biggest unlocks for early-stage startups: designing your MVP to move fast
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From Idea to Traction
Every startup journey begins with a flicker of an idea. For Hari, the founder of OpenSource DB, that spark came
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Fundraising at Startups: Storytelling with Substance
At OpenSource DB, we didn’t begin with pitch decks or polished cap tables. We began with a bold question:“What if
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Effortless PostgreSQL Partitioning with pg_partman
Managing large datasets in PostgreSQL can quickly become a challenge, especially as tables grow and query performance starts to degrade.
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Building a Company Culture from Day One
When we started OpenSource DB four years ago, we didn’t have a ten-slide pitch deck or a well-funded war chest.
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