Tagged #databases

5 notes.

• Aug 10, 2026·~6 min

  Firestore deletes nothing on its own, and a document is the smallest thing it can split

  Two Firestore properties that decide the schema for live shared state: TTL is a policy rather than a field, and the document is the unit that expires, transacts, and hotspots.

• Jul 26, 2026·~6 min

  You can add a backend to a static site without running one

  Live presence, shared reactions and per-post likes on two static GitHub Pages sites — using Supabase from the browser, for free, without leaking visitors to a third party on load.

• Jul 21, 2026·~4 min

  One Supabase project, three static apps

  A portfolio, a blog and a book-library PWA all share one free Supabase project — three completely different backends living in the same database without stepping on each other.

• Jul 18, 2026·~16 min

  A mounted bucket is not a database — even when SQLite seems to work

  What a tiny Cloud Run deployment taught me about ephemeral containers, deceptive GCS FUSE persistence, Firestore transactions, cutover proofs, and the one innocent polling loop that can dominate the bill.

• Jun 20, 2026·~6 min

  The Rust SQLite rewrite's real bet isn't Rust — it's how it's tested

  Turso is rewriting SQLite in Rust, but the interesting part is deterministic simulation testing — and why that's the only thing that could plausibly match SQLite's reliability.