Notes on Small Systems Databases, backups, and keeping modest servers alive. https://blog.auragg.space/ 2026-04-11T09:00:00Z Notes on Small Systems The restore drill nobody runs https://blog.auragg.space/posts-restore-drill.html 2026-04-11T09:00:00Z A backup you have never restored is a hypothesis. The forty-minute exercise I run every quarter, and what it caught the first time. Why my Postgres connection pool was the wrong size for two years https://blog.auragg.space/posts-pool-size.html 2026-02-27T08:30:00Z More connections did not mean more throughput. What the numbers actually looked like, and the one line of documentation that mattered most. Log rotation is not optional https://blog.auragg.space/posts-log-rotation.html 2025-12-08T19:15:00Z The evening I spent recovering a server whose disk had quietly filled with container logs, and the four lines that prevent it.