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How One Team Decided Their Database Was the Wrong Database
Episode 30 of Tech Leadership with Fexingo dives into the hardest infrastructure decision a CTO can face: when to migrate off a database that's been running in production for years. Lucas and Luna unpack the story of a mid-stage SaaS company that switched from MongoDB to PostgreSQL after three years of accumulating workarounds, query timeouts, and data inconsistency bugs. They walk through the technical triggers — specifically a cascading replica failure during a routine backup — that forced the engineering team to admit their document store was the wrong fit for their relational domain. The…
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