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The Study

Everything we've published — learn, evaluate, and explore Gold Lapel at your own pace.

Learn

From first install to production architecture.

Guides

Step-by-step walkthroughs for common scenarios — setup, tuning, deployment patterns.

Docs

Complete reference — CLI, configuration, language wrappers, framework plugins, ORMs.

Evaluate

Numbers, stories, and comparisons to help you decide.

Benchmarks

Latency and throughput measurements across real-world query patterns.

Case Studies

How teams use Gold Lapel — before/after metrics, architecture choices, lessons learned.

Compare

Gold Lapel vs Redis, PgBouncer, ProxySQL, and manual optimization — honest trade-offs.

Explore

Broader thinking about Postgres, performance, and infrastructure.

How-To

Focused walkthroughs for specific tasks — connection pooling, N+1 detection, cache tuning.

Blog

Deep dives and dispatches from the Waiter.

Glossary

PostgreSQL extensions, concepts, and terminology — explained plainly.

The Book

A proper book about the problem Gold Lapel solves.

You Don't Need Redis

19 chapters on why your Postgres database is faster than you think — and what to do about it.

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