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Database Services

Six modern data infrastructure services built on 19+ years of expertise. Every engagement starts with a free diagnostic so we understand your situation before proposing solutions.

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Fractional DBA · $2,500–$10k/mo

Managed DBA

Senior DBA expertise for less than one salary

A full-time senior DBA costs $175,000–$300,000/year fully loaded. Our managed DBA retainer starts at $2,500/month — proactive monitoring, query optimization, on-call incident response, and monthly performance governance. One prevented outage typically pays for 6–12 months of coverage.

  • Continuous database monitoring and alerting
  • Slow query detection and fix implementation
  • On-call incident response (up to 24/7 on Enterprise)
  • Monthly performance health report
  • Schema review before every deployment
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30–70%
cheaper than in-house
1 week
to active management
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Cut Cloud Costs 30–40%

Database FinOps

Find the 30–40% you're overpaying on cloud database bills

Most companies overpay on RDS, Aurora, Snowflake, and BigQuery by 30–40%. Overprovisioned instances, inefficient I/O patterns, and unused Reserved Instance capacity add up. We audit your spend, identify every dollar being wasted, and implement the fixes—average client recovers the engagement cost in the first month.

  • RDS, Aurora, Snowflake, BigQuery cost audit
  • Instance right-sizing with zero-downtime migration
  • I/O and storage optimization
  • Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategy
  • Ongoing cost monitoring retainer available
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30–40%
avg bill reduction
90 days
typical payback
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pgvector · RAG · Embeddings

AI Data Infrastructure

Your existing PostgreSQL can power your AI product

Before you add Pinecone or Qdrant, talk to us. Most teams with under 10M vectors can run semantic search, RAG pipelines, and AI features directly on the PostgreSQL they already operate. Properly tuned HNSW indexes on pgvector deliver 471 QPS at 99% recall—with SQL joins dedicated vector databases can't do.

  • pgvector setup and HNSW index tuning
  • RAG pipeline architecture and implementation
  • Embedding storage and chunking strategy design
  • Semantic search and recommendation engines
  • LLM context storage and conversation memory
GET FREE ARCHITECTURE REVIEW
471 QPS
pgvector at 99% recall
No new DB
runs in PostgreSQL
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Reduce DB Load 60–80%

Caching Architecture

Stop your database from doing work it shouldn't

Upgrading to a bigger instance is the most expensive way to fix a read volume problem. A well-designed Redis caching layer reduces database load 60–80% and cuts read response times to under 1ms—without touching your schema. We design the right invalidation strategy so you get speed without consistency bugs.

  • Redis architecture design and cluster setup
  • Cache invalidation strategy (TTL, write-through, event-driven)
  • Session storage and rate limiting
  • Database query offloading patterns
  • Redis as message broker and job queue
GET FREE CACHING REVIEW
60–80%
DB load reduction
<1ms
cache read latency
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dbt · Kafka · ETL/ELT Pipelines

Data Engineering

Build pipelines your analysts trust

When analysts spend half their time questioning whether the numbers are right, you have a data engineering problem—not an analytics problem. We build dbt models, ETL/ELT pipelines, and Kafka event streams that keep your data fresh, tested, and consistent across every dashboard.

  • dbt implementation and data modeling
  • ETL/ELT pipeline design with Airbyte or Fivetran
  • Kafka and event streaming architecture
  • Airflow or Prefect orchestration
  • Data warehouse architecture (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift)
GET FREE PIPELINE REVIEW
4–8 wks
typical dbt implementation
1 truth
one metric definition
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AWS · GCP · Azure · Kubernetes

Cloud Infrastructure

Infrastructure that runs itself takes work to design

Cloud infrastructure provisioned through the console eventually becomes unmanageable. We build Terraform-managed infrastructure for your database workloads—fully reproducible, reviewable, and ready for regional failover. Designed for 99.99% uptime and right-sized for cost from day one.

  • Terraform IaC implementation and migration
  • RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL architecture
  • Multi-region failover and disaster recovery
  • VPC design, security groups, IAM
  • Kubernetes stateful workload design (EKS, GKE, AKS)
GET FREE INFRASTRUCTURE REVIEW
99.99%
uptime architecture
Multi-cloud
AWS, GCP, Azure
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N+1 Fixes · ORM Audits · Pooling

Backend/API Performance

The slow query is often in your app, not your database

80% of slow API performance issues trace back to the application layer: N+1 queries from ORM misconfiguration, connection pool exhaustion, or SELECT * where 4 columns would do. Adding a read replica doesn't fix a code problem. We instrument your endpoints, find the actual cause, and fix it.

  • N+1 query detection and same-day diagnosis
  • ORM audit (Django, Rails, Laravel, Prisma, Hibernate, SQLAlchemy)
  • Connection pool sizing and PgBouncer/RDS Proxy setup
  • GraphQL DataLoader implementation
  • Query plan correlation to application code
GET FREE API AUDIT
80%
API issues: app-layer cause
Same day
N+1 diagnosis
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Which Service Do You Need?

Not sure where to start? Match your situation to the right service.

“We have no DBA on staff and our database is mission-critical”Managed DBA“Our one DBA left and we need senior coverage immediately”Managed DBA“Our RDS / Aurora / Snowflake bill went up 40% and nobody knows why”Database FinOps“We want to add semantic search or RAG to our product”AI Data Infrastructure“My API is slow and upgrading the database instance didn't help”Backend/API Performance“Our analysts spend half their time questioning whether the data is right”Data Engineering“Database reads are hammering the server under normal traffic”Caching Architecture“We're moving to AWS / GCP / Azure and need the infrastructure set up properly”Cloud Infrastructure“We want to use our existing PostgreSQL for AI instead of adding Pinecone”AI Data Infrastructure“Our Terraform setup is a mess and we keep having infrastructure drift”Cloud Infrastructure

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