Kafka

Ardent introduces a database sandbox solution that allows coding agents to test their work in a production-like environment without affecting the production database. The solution uses logical replication and ddl triggers to enable usage on any hosted Postgres DB. Ardent aims to make every data infrastructure platform 'cloneable' for testing purposes.

The author spent 3 months building a Solana indexer but is still missing slots and struggling with scalability, leading to increased AWS bills. They are considering abandoning their own infrastructure and paying a data provider instead. The author is seeking advice from others who have run production Solana indexers.