Why Postgres is eating the rest of your data stack
NEO Campus Editorial21 March 20266 min read
The default architecture used to be Postgres plus five other systems. In 2026, you can credibly do all of it inside Postgres alone — at least for a long time.
Queues with SKIP LOCKED
A simple queue table with SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED handles millions of jobs a day without a dedicated broker.
Search with tsvector and pg_trgm
Full-text and fuzzy search inside the same transaction as your data. No sync jobs, no consistency headaches.
Vectors with pgvector
Embeddings, semantic search, and RAG-style retrieval without leaving Postgres. The performance is good enough for most products.
