Our story

We're not a big company.
We're two people who really love databases.

Stacknesia started with a simple frustration — every time we faced a tricky database problem at work, the resources online were either too generic, too outdated, or just plain wrong. We kept solving the same problems from scratch, and we knew other engineers were too.

So we decided to write it all down. The real stuff — the migrations that almost went wrong, the HA setups that took three attempts, the monitoring configs that actually work in production. Not the sanitized version. The honest one.

We're both still working full-time as database engineers, which means everything here comes straight from what we're dealing with today — not what we dealt with five years ago.

Meet the team

YJ
Yosef Jeffri
Senior Database Engineer

"I've migrated databases that were older than my career. Every scar taught me something — and I'd rather you skip the scar part."

PostgreSQLOracle → PGPatroni / HASnowflakeMulti-cloud
Currently at a leading logistics company
4+ years · 10TB+ environments
Jakarta, Indonesia
PW
Patria Wineka
Senior Database Administrator

"Managing 100+ databases teaches you one thing: everything will break eventually. The question is whether you're ready when it does."

PostgreSQL / EDBSQL Server HAAlibaba CloudRHCSAAutomation
Currently at a leading retail group
5+ years · 100+ prod databases
Jakarta, Indonesia

How Stacknesia came to be

We met at the same company — a data consulting firm where we both worked as database consultants. Day after day, we were solving similar problems for different clients across banking, finance, telco, and insurance. It didn't take long before we realized we were thinking about the same things.

"We didn't build Stacknesia because we had all the answers. We built it because we kept searching for answers and coming up empty — so we decided to become the resource we wished we had."

Long term? We want to build something bigger — a proper database and infrastructure consultancy. But right now, we're starting where every good thing starts: by being genuinely useful to the people around us.

If you're a DBA, a data engineer, a developer who suddenly became responsible for a database, or someone trying to build their career in this space — this place is for you.

What we believe in

Honest over polished
We write about what actually happened, including the mistakes. Sanitized content helps no one.
Practical over theoretical
Every article, cheat sheet, and tool here is something we've actually used in production.
Community first
Knowledge should be free. Resources, guides, and tools on Stacknesia will always be free to access.