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Dan Milne

09 Jan 2025

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Proxying Distant HTTP Services for Latency wins

My Rails app, Booko, uses Meilisearch for text search - it's great. So easy to setup and use. Booko runs in Hetzner's Singapore location, but the Meilisearch instance is in Hetzner's Helsinki region on a physical host. They're hard to beat for

14 Sep 2025 2 min read

Nipsu

15 Aug 2025

Migrating PostgreSQL across the planet, with almost no downtime.

TL;DR: Using PostgreSQL logical replication and Tailscale VPN, I migrated 200GB of data from California to Sydney with seconds of downtime and no time pressure. The replica synchronized over several days while production ran normally.

07 Aug 2025 7 min read

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