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Database9 min readJune 25, 2026

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I accidentally paid for my database to never sleep. Here's how a write every sixty seconds quietly defeated serverless Postgres, and how buffering through Redis brought the bill back down to earth.

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Ntsako Mbhalati

Founder, Southcore Labs

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