Infrastructure & Scale Personas

Individual developers and engineers writing from real operational experience with databases, sharding, OLAP, and high-throughput systems. Not vendor marketing — genuine practitioners.

	Author	Signal	Top Article	Page Views
1	Franck Pachot @franckpachot	DB architect — sharding, Aurora DSQL, YugabyteDB, distributed SQL internals, LSM trees. Deepest technical writer in this space. 78 articles. PostgreSQLShardingOLAP	UUID in PostgreSQL	40,914
2	Florian Engelhardt @realflowcontrol	PHP core contributor. Wrote THE viral billion-row challenge post (93K views, 634 reactions). Billion RowsPostgreSQL	Processing One Billion Rows in PHP!	93,481
3	José Thomaz @josethz00	PostgreSQL bulk inserts, IoT databases, database replication, vector DBs. Wide-ranging practitioner. PostgreSQLBulk Ops	Speed up your PostgreSQL bulk inserts with COPY	41,373
4	James Blackwood-Sewell @james_blackwoodsewell_58	Benchmarking databases for real-time analytics — massive single article reach. Direct comparisons of OLAP engines. ClickHouseBenchmarks	Benchmarking Databases for Real-Time Analytics	26,085
5	Francesco Tisiot @ftisiot	PostgreSQL + ClickHouse benchmarking. JSONB cheatsheets. Aiven DevRel. Billion-row challenge with both engines. PostgreSQLClickHouseBillion Rows	1 billion rows challenge in PostgreSQL and ClickHouse	19,796
6	Hamed Karbasi @hoptical	4-part ClickHouse tutorial series — indexes, keys, table engines, perf comparison with MySQL. Combined 45K views. ClickHouse	ClickHouse Basic Tutorial: Keys & Indexes	17,356
7	Daniele Vilela @danielevilela	Processing 1M SQL rows to CSV with Node.js streams. Scale-at-the-application-layer practitioner. Million RowsSQL	Processing 1 Million SQL Rows to CSV using Node.js Streams	16,591
8	Randall @mistval	Race conditions in PostgreSQL, database architecture patterns. Also runs a bot in 50K Discord servers — real scale experience. PostgreSQLConcurrency	Winning Race Conditions With PostgreSQL	14,389
9	Sadeq Dousti @msdousti	PostgreSQL outbox pattern, partitioning performance, EKS→MSK infrastructure. Real production architecture. PostgreSQLKafka/MSK	PostgreSQL + Outbox Pattern Revamped	12,590
10	Umang Sinha @umangsinha12	UUID benchmarking in PostgreSQL, Bloom filters in Go, low-level performance work. Rigorous benchmarker. PostgreSQLBenchmarks	PostgreSQL UUID Performance: Benchmarking v4 vs v7	10,285
11	Shahab Ranjbary @ranjbaryshahab	Data engineer. 10 ClickHouse articles — Debezium CDC, Kafka integration, data quality with Soda. Hands-on practitioner. ClickHouseCDC/Kafka	ClickHouse articles →	11,186
12	Andrew Atkinson @andatki	PostgreSQL practitioner — indexing performance, upgrades, dump/restore. Writes from real ops experience. PostgreSQL	How Long Does It Take To Create An Index?	9,044
13	Cameron Archer @tbperegrine	Growth @ Tinybird. "5 years operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters." Real ops experience. 83 articles total. ClickHousePetabyte	Real-time databases: what developers need to know	11,758
14	Nithin Bharadwaj @nithinbharathwaj	Performance engineering — 500K ops/sec caching in Go, concurrent data pipelines, DB connection pooling. High ThroughputDB Perf	6 Essential WebSocket Patterns for Real-Time Applications	6,217
15	Benoit Tigeot @benoittgt	Rails + PostgreSQL 17. Practitioner perspective on real DB features that matter in production. PostgreSQL	As Rails devs, why we're excited about PostgreSQL 17	5,360
16	Shiv Iyer @shiviyer	Founder/CEO MinervaDB & ChistaDATA. MySQL/PostgreSQL/ClickHouse perf tuning. SRE background. 67 articles. ClickHousePostgreSQL	ClickHouse performance tuning →	39,589
17	Antti Viljami @anttiviljami	Head of Engineering. Rewrote a SaaS, killed a monolith, real scaling war stories from production. Scaling	After 3 years: Bets I made as Head of Engineering	3,146
18	Mohamed Hussain S @mohhddhassan	18 articles. ClickHouse practitioner — sharding, ETL, query optimization, Kafka pipelines. Bio: "Exploring OLAP DBs like ClickHouse." ClickHouseShardingKafka	Why 'FINAL' in ClickHouse Is Usually a Design Smell	3,377
19	HyperscaleDesignHub @vijaya_bhaskarv_ba95adf9	Real-time streaming — "1M msgs/sec with Pulsar", Flink perf tuning, 90% cost reduction vs AWS managed services. Streaming1M msg/s	Real-Time Data Streaming Platform →	1,429

The most-read articles on DEV about databases, sharding, and processing data at scale. The audience reading these is the target persona.