PostgreSQL 17 with DuckDB 1.2: how we cut cloud spend 40% #6949

We were burning $42,000 a month on managed PostgreSQL 17 instances to power our analytics dashboards, with p99 query latency hitting 11 seconds for 1TB+ joins. Adding DuckDB 1.2 as an embedded OLAP engine cut that bill by 40% (saving $16,800/month) and dropped p99 latency to 210ms, with zero changes to our application layer. Here’s how we did it, with benchmarks, production code, and hard numbers. 📡 Hacker News Top Stories Right Now Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data