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title: Databases & Storage — Curated Reading List
kind: index
domain: database
fetched_at: 2026-05-18
tags: [index, database, redis, mysql, postgresql, storage]
---

> [!info] Reading-list index · canonical database sources
> Companion to the full-text imports under `reference/external/database/`.
> Operational and design material from antirez (Redis author) and other
> canonical sources.

# Redis — antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo, original Redis author)

- [Redis persistence demystified](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-persistence-demystified.html)
- [How to take advantage of Redis just adding it to your stack](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/take-advantage-of-redis-adding-it-to-your-stack.html)
- [Auto Complete with Redis](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/autocomplete-with-redis.html)
- [Redis as an LRU cache](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-as-LRU-cache.html)
- [On Redis, Memcached, Speed, Benchmarks and The Toilet](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-memcached-benchmark.html)
- [Redis Manifesto](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/redis-manifesto.html)
- [fsync() on a different thread: apparently a useless trick](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/fsync-different-thread-useless.html)
- [Everything about Redis 2.4](https://oldblog.antirez.com/post/everything-about-redis-24.html)

# PostgreSQL — official wiki (in-product references)

(See also full-text imports under `reference/external/database/` for
Lock Monitoring / Slow Query Questions / Tuning / Disk Usage / Performance
Optimization wiki pages.)

- [PostgreSQL Wiki — Server Administration](https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Category:Server_Administration)
- [PostgreSQL Wiki — Performance](https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Category:Performance)
- [PostgreSQL Documentation — Monitoring Database Activity](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/monitoring.html)
- [PostgreSQL Documentation — pg_stat_statements](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgstatstatements.html)

# Kubernetes — official docs

(See also full-text imports under `reference/external/kubernetes/` for the
five core debug task pages.)

- [Kubernetes — Configure and use kube-apiserver](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kube-apiserver/)
- [Kubernetes — kubelet command reference](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/command-line-tools-reference/kubelet/)
- [Kubernetes — kubectl debug](https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/generated/kubectl/kubectl-commands#debug)
- [Kubernetes — Resource Metrics Pipeline](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/resource-metrics-pipeline/)
