🔧 How We Used DBtune to Cut Our Postgres Query Time by 50% on AWS RDS

or: Why tuning Postgres still feels like rocket science - and why we're happy to offload it to a robot.







TL;DR



At Papershift, we run our core product on Postgres 17.6 on AWS RDS.
After a major version upgrade, our database was back on the AWS default parameter group.
Instead of hand-tuning Postgres again, we tried DBtune, an...