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April 6, 2026
We Replaced Redis With PostgreSQL for Caching — Here's What Happened
Our Redis cache kept dropping TLS connections, taking down the entire caching layer. After a misleading benchmark nearly sent us in the wrong direction, we migrated to PostgreSQL — same performance, zero drops, one less service to manage.
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Published on
March 14, 2026
When Doubling Your Server Memory Is the Wrong Fix: How Service Separation Solved Our OOM Crisis
Our monolithic Nuxt app kept crashing at the 2GB memory limit. We doubled to 4GB — twice the cost, same underlying problem. After five days of failed optimization attempts (streaming compression, Redis polling, SWR caching), we split the monolith into three standalone services. Each got its own 2GB allocation, total cost dropped, and the crashes stopped.
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We Replaced Redis With PostgreSQL for Caching — Here's What Happened