Introducing the satus log
A plain-text changelog and field notebook for schema-aware seed data, written for engineers who read RFCs for fun.
This is where we publish post-mortems on real production schemas, notes on Postgres internals that surprised us, and changelog entries for the satus CLI. No growth-hacked headlines, no listicles, no "Top 10 Reasons" posts.
What you can expect
- Schema reports. We see hundreds of
CREATE TABLEstatements a week. When a pattern keeps biting people (cyclic FKs, partitioned tables with RLS, JSONB columns that are secretly relational), we'll write it up. - Profile deep-dives. Each official profile (medical-booking, e-commerce, saas-subscriptions) gets a write-up explaining the heuristics it encodes and the trade-offs we made.
- CLI changelogs. Every release ships with a post explaining what changed and why, in prose, not just a git log.
- Field notes. Edge cases from support tickets, anonymized and generalized into something useful.
What you will not see
No SEO farm posts. No AI-generated filler. No "What is a foreign key?" content aimed at search-engine bots. If it isn't useful to someone who already ships Postgres for a living, we won't publish it.
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—the satus.sh team