Database Testing
Database logic doesn't live only in application code. Stored procedures, triggers, views, and constraints encode business rules directly in the database — and those rules need tests too. pgTAP is the standard unit testing framework for PostgreSQL, letting you write tests as SQL functions using the TAP (Test Anything
Database Testing
ORMs hide SQL behind object abstractions, which makes application code cleaner but creates a testing trap: it's tempting to mock the ORM and test nothing real. Mock-based ORM tests can show 100% coverage while completely missing query logic bugs, N+1 problems, and constraint violations that only
GCP Testing
Firestore transactions are the safety net for complex multi-document operations. They guarantee that either all writes succeed or none do.
Chaos Engineering
Database failures are uniquely destructive. Most applications can degrade gracefully when a downstream API is slow — retry logic, circuit breakers, and fallback responses let users continue with reduced functionality. But when the database fails, most applications fail completely. This makes the database the highest-value target for chaos engineering. Understanding
Database Testing
Xata is a serverless database platform built on PostgreSQL with a TypeScript SDK, full-text search, branch-based development workflows, and an HTTP API.
Database Testing
PocketBase is an open-source backend in a single Go binary: embedded SQLite database, realtime subscriptions, file storage, auth, and an extensible Go framework — all in one 30MB executable. It's become popular for indie projects, prototypes, and small teams who want a real backend without the operational overhead.
Database Testing
Nhost is an open-source Firebase alternative that combines PostgreSQL, Hasura GraphQL Engine, Auth (JWT-based), Storage, and serverless functions into a single deployable platform. It's popular with teams who want typed GraphQL APIs auto-generated from their database schema without writing resolvers. Testing Nhost applications involves several
Database Testing
Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platforms have become a default choice for teams who want authentication, databases, storage, and real-time subscriptions without building backend infrastructure from scratch. Platforms like Appwrite, Nhost, PocketBase, Xata, and Supabase each offer Firebase-style convenience with different trade-offs. Testing BaaS-backed applications requires
Database Testing
Appwrite is an open-source backend platform that packages auth, databases, storage, functions, and messaging into a single self-hostable (or cloud) service.
Testing
Your database going down is not a matter of if — it's when. A disk fills up, a cloud provider has an AZ outage, a runaway query corrupts an index, a network partition isolates the primary. The question is whether your failover mechanism works correctly and whether your application
Testing
Database layers fail in ways that application layers don't. HTTP servers can scale horizontally almost indefinitely — databases hit hard limits around connections, lock contention, and I/O capacity. Stress testing the database independently from the application reveals bottlenecks that composite API tests often miss. Why Database Stress Testing
Testing
Row-Level Security (RLS) is PostgreSQL's mechanism for enforcing data access policies at the database layer.