{
  "brief": "The lead, \"Migrating 40TB off Postgres\", is the rare migration write-up that keeps its failures in: two aborted cutovers, the rollback that took longer than the move, and a bill at the end. Read it first while the coffee is hot; it rewards attention and it is long.\n\nThe local desk answers with \"The MBTA slow-zone dataset\", which finally puts the T's own numbers into a shape a rider can argue with, and the charts do more persuading than a year of press releases. \"A failover story you'd argue with\" rounds out the engineering pages with a Postgres HA design that disagrees with the lead on almost every point, which is exactly why the two belong in the same issue. The issue is shorter than usual because a thin Friday is a good excuse to finish the long one properly rather than skim six."
}