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Simeon Griggs [@simeonGriggs] | April 10, 2026
Dead tuples from high-churn job queues can silently degrade your Postgres database when vacuum falls behind—especially alongside competing workloads. Traffic Control keeps cleanup on track.
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Simeon Griggs [@simeonGriggs] | April 10, 2026

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Practical patterns for leveraging Database traffic Control

Blog posts by Simeon Griggs on the PlanetScale blog.

Posts about the PlanetScale platform, MySQL, PostgreSQL, databases, and more.

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