Inside the Database Stack
Follow one request from Django's QuerySet to PostgreSQL's disk pages, and learn what really slows your app down, why indexes can hurt, and when raw SQL earns its place.

Follow one request from Django's QuerySet to PostgreSQL's disk pages, and learn what really slows your app down, why indexes can hurt, and when raw SQL earns its place.

At 50k documents you can skip the vector database drama. What matters is how you retrieve, how you fuse, and whether you measured.

You're probably dropping \(20 a month for ChatGPT, another \)20 for Claude, and then paying GitHub Copilot/Claude Code or Make just to move some text between apps. It's a tax on our productivity, and
