Debugging a MemoryDB Incident: CloudWatch vs BetterDB
A walkthrough of the same MemoryDB incident debugged three ways - CloudWatch, BetterDB UI, and BetterDB MCP. Same data, very different outcomes.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
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The Glue Layer Most People Don't Design Intentionally: Caching, State, and Session Management in AI Apps
Your AI app works great in dev. Then LLM costs spike, latency doubles, and your agent forgets mid-task. The problem is the layer between your app and your model.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
How to Connect to a Remote Valkey (or Redis) Instance from VS Code (and Cursor, Windsurf, and Others) via SSH Tunnel
Stop running ssh -L by hand every time you need to check something. Here's how to connect to remote Valkey and Redis instances via SSH tunnel without leaving your editor.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
What BetterDB Exposes to Prometheus (And Why It Matters)
A practical guide to BetterDB's 99 Prometheus metrics - what they cover, how to configure scraping, and PromQL queries worth keeping around.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
Valkey's Moment: Why AI Inference Needs What Postgres Can't Deliver
Why the database that was 'just a cache' might be the most important piece of your AI infrastructure
Kristiyan Ivanov•
Valkey/Redis Monitoring Overhead: Interleaved Benchmark Results
Most monitoring tools claim low overhead but never show their work. Here's the interleaved benchmark methodology we use to measure BetterDB's monitoring overhead on Valkey and Redis.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
Real-Time Alerting Without the Infrastructure: Why We Built Native Webhooks
BetterDB 0.3.0 introduces native webhook notifications-real-time alerts for your Valkey or Redis databases without requiring Prometheus or Alertmanager.
Kristiyan Ivanov•
Introducing BetterDB for Valkey: A Free VS Code Extension
Browse keys, edit values, and run commands against Valkey and Redis without leaving your editor. MIT-licensed and open source.
Kristiyan Ivanov•