We were paying for a realtime vendor to show online avatars. We already had Server-Sent Events and Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY in production, so we built presence ourselves and deleted the dependency.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
We run every async job in Basedash on Postgres with pg-boss. Three production incidents later, here's what we changed: a queue policy that silently dropped 92% of jobs, batch work starving live chats, and a connection pool that gave out at the top of every hour.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
We ran rollup-plugin-visualizer against the Basedash client bundle and found 7 MiB of stuff we didn't need to ship. Here's what was in there, why, and how we got rid of it.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
Drag in edit mode froze the page for over a second on big dashboards. The cause was 97 Replicache subscriptions re-running on every keystroke. Here's how we moved the read path to TanStack DB collections backed by SSE, and kept Replicache for writes.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
How we replaced a one-size-fits-all subquery wrapper with an AST-based query rewriter, and finally got SQL Server, Spanner, and Athena pagination to actually work.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
Our pods were crash-looping and the logs said nothing. We chased an OOM, found something else entirely, and learned a Kubernetes default that should not be a default.
Max MusingFounder and CEO of Basedash
How to use Framer’s AI features to create a right click to download logo menu for the Basedash website.
Tom JohnsonHead of Design
Skip Tailwind’s dark: modifier. Learn how Basedash uses CSS variables, global state, and zero-flicker theming for a scalable light/dark mode system.
Robert CooperSenior Software EngineerAutomating Prisma migrations in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline ensures that any new changes to your database schema.
Robert CooperSenior Software Engineer
Debugging MySQL stored procedures is tricky, mostly because MySQL’s native debugging tools have some limitations.
Robert CooperSenior Software Engineer
Retrieving and understanding the definition of database views in PostgreSQL is not only essential but can significantly enhance your database management.
Robert CooperSenior Software Engineer
When working with MySQL, encountering the "failed to open file error 2" can be a frustrating experience.
Robert CooperSenior Software Engineer
MySQL Workbench is a unified visual tool for database architects, developers, and DBAs. However, users sometimes encounter crashes while writing queries.
Robert CooperSenior Software Engineer
Prisma is an open-source database toolkit that simplifies database workflows, making them more efficient and type-safe.
Robert CooperSenior Software EngineerError code 1064 in MySQL is a syntax error, commonly encountered when writing SQL queries. This guide explains how to identify and fix this error, which.
Robert CooperSenior Software EngineerMySQL, primarily a database management system, does not inherently support a direct print statement like some programming languages.
Robert CooperSenior Software EngineerWe can help you migrate your data and dashboards from any other tool.
