Updates, guides, and technical reads from the Vela team.
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Why we forked Supabase to build Vela, a self-hostable Postgres platform with storage-level branching, pragmatic infrastructure choices, and a focus on running in your own cloud.
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Enhance your multi-tenant application's security by implementing row level security and protect user data seamlessly.
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Discover the surprising SQL history and learn why some technologies endure while others fade away in IT realms.
Extended statistics help PostgreSQL fix bad row estimates and improve query planning with almost no storage overhead. This article shows where CREATE STATISTICS outperforms adding more indexes.
How Vela achieved sub-10-second database boot on Kubernetes while maintaining strong isolation and resilient scaling behavior.
The old version of database branching is dead. Real isolation, fast copy-on-write clones, and branch-first workflows are what modern teams and agents need.
A practical blueprint for building agentic data infrastructure on Postgres with safe, isolated branching workflows.
Vela does not replace PostgreSQL. It reimagines how teams provision, branch, test, and access Postgres with a self-service experience.
MinIOs shift reignited a critical platform question: who controls your core infrastructure. Why Postgres governance and licensing model matter for long-term risk.
Find out why many argue against Postgres on kubernetes in production, and what are the trade-offs of using Kubernetes with Postgres.
Adopt AI without rebuilding your stack. Discover how enterprises evolve existing databases like Postgres into AI infrastructure.
Learn how generative AI is driving enterprise IT transformation and allowing teams to build apps quickly while raising new concerns.
Understand the platform engineer role in building frictionless workflows and tackling database management challenges in cloud environments.
Enterprises struggle to move GenAI from prototype to production. Learn why 95% of GenAI pilots fail and how to fix it.
Database change management is important but it doesn't resolve the human error factor. Database branching it's logical extension. Learn more.
Every CTO knows this story. The release passes every automated test, the staging sign-off is green, and confidence is high. Yet hours after deployment, dashboards flare red. Performance tanks, custome
Learn why effective database testing requires more than mock databases. Discover the value of database clones for reliability and confidence.