Welcome to Episode 6 of More Than a Refresh Presents: T3D Sessions. Command Prompt Founder Joshua “JD” Drake sits down with his colleague Brian Fehrle, DBA at Command Prompt, to dive into one of the toughest challenges for fast-growing applications: scaling your database without breaking the bank.

Brian shares real-world lessons on what happens when traffic spikes, why simply “throwing more hardware at it” is a dangerous (and expensive) band-aid, and how smarter approaches—like monitoring PostgreSQL catalog stats, tuning autovacuum, and implementing partitioning—can save organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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