PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies in 2026: Why Your Database Ignores Your Indexes PostgreSQL Indexing 2026 Deep-Dive May 26, 2026 · 14 min read PostgreSQL Indexing Strategies in 2026: Why Your Database Ignores Your Indexes (And How to Fix It) 👤 Tahar Maqawil — Senior Application Developer & Database Architect Informaticien d'Application · PostgreSQL Specialist · Bioquro 10+ years designing indexes that work — and debugging indexes that don't There is a particular silence in the database when an index exists but the query planner refuses to use it. The application is timing out. The dashboard is red. And somewhere in the PostgreSQL logs, a sequential scan is running on a table with 50 million rows — a table that has an index. The index is there. It was created months ago by a well-meaning engineer who ran a migration. But the query planner has decided, coldly and correctly, that the in...
AWS Cost Optimization for Kubernetes in 2026: How We Cut Our Cloud Bill by 60% AWS Cost Optimization Kubernetes 2026 May 22, 2026 · 15 min read AWS Cost Optimization for Kubernetes in 2026: How We Cut Our Cloud Bill by 60% (The Real Numbers) 👤 Tahar Maqawil — Senior Application Developer & Cloud Architect Informaticien d'Application · FinOps Engineer · Bioquro 10+ years deploying Kubernetes on AWS — and paying the bills that came with it There is a particular kind of Slack message that ruins a Monday. It starts with your CFO, it includes a screenshot of the AWS billing dashboard, and the number in the screenshot is not the number anyone expected. The message we received said: "Can someone explain why our cloud bill increased by $12,000 this month?" It was not a DDoS attack. It was not a misconfigured autoscaler. It was a combination of three cost leaks that had been silently draini...