I replaced my entire tech stack with Postgres

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57,278 views August 28, 2026

Modern web apps get expensive fast, mostly because we bolt on twenty services to do things Postgres already does. Caching, vector search, full text search, geospatial, cron and document storage, all of it inside one database you already run. Not because you should, but because you can. ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 00:00 The poor man's web stack 00:48 unlogged tables 01:49 pgvector 02:30 tsvector search 03:42 PostGIS 05:05 pg_cron 05:47 JSONB 06:27 So should you actually do this?

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