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Hoofer Tech is a Vancouver software company. We ship our own products and take on consulting work where database depth matters: Postgres reliability, data systems, and product engineering.
$ psql prod -c "SELECT calls, round(mean_exec_time) ms,
left(query, 42) FROM pg_stat_statements
ORDER BY total_exec_time DESC LIMIT 3;" calls | ms | query
-------+-------+--------------------------------------
84210 | 1240 | UPDATE subscriptions SET plan = $1
312 | 9807 | SELECT * FROM events e JOIN users u
44871 | 318 | INSERT INTO memories (agent_id, em-- unqualified UPDATE in the hot path
-- seq scan: no index on events(user_id)
-- 3 services share one superuser role-- consulting
Our flagship consulting practice. Databases built or hammered by AI tooling are reaching production scale with no DBA behind them. We find and fix what will take them down.
-- prices
Fixed, public prices, in USD. No discovery-call theater.
Start here
$7,500 fixed · two weeks
One production cluster, end to end: schema and indexes, query workload, configuration, connection pooling, backup and recovery posture, upgrade path, and a map of every human, service, and agent holding credentials, with what each can damage.
You get a written report ranked by risk, quick wins your team can apply the same week, a 90-day plan, a readout call, and 30 days of follow-up questions.
Fewer than five actionable findings and the second half of the fee is waived.
Book the audit$3,000 per day
Postgres is down, slow, or lost data. We join the incident remotely, on your systems, and stay until it holds. Post-incident write-up included.
Subject to availability. Retainer clients get priority.
Get help nowfrom $4,000 per month
Principal-level attention a few days a month instead of a full-time hire: monitoring review, query and index tuning, capacity planning, upgrades, and an escalation path for when things break at 2am.
Ask about a retainer-- process
One hour with your team: what hurts, what changed, what you are afraid of. Read-only access is set up, or screen-share sessions if direct access is off the table.
Workload from pg_stat_statements, schema and index inventory, configuration, pooling,
backups, and the credential map. Nothing writes to your systems.
Findings ranked by risk and by effort to fix. Every finding names the fix, not just the smell.
A call to walk through the report, then 30 days of async questions while your team applies it.
-- products
We ship our own software, not just advice.
hoofer=# SELECT name, domain, what FROM products;
| name | domain | what |
|---|---|---|
| Botliga | botliga.com | A deterministic bot arena. Write a bot in one of six languages, enter weekly tournaments, and verify every match replay move by move in the browser. |
| Hoofade | hoofade.com | Trade sharing with redaction. Connect a brokerage read-only and share your trades while controlling what viewers see: sizes, P&L, timing. |
| Doostami | doostami.net | Private relationship memory. Encrypted notes and a few concrete weekly nudges for the people who matter. Only your device can unlock it. |
| GoodToon | goodtoon.tv | A parent-controlled TV guide for kids. Parents pick what plays; kids just watch. |
| Payperoo | payperoo.com | Family tasks and allowances. Chores, payouts, and the paper trail between them. |
(5 rows)
-- engineering
We also take a small number of product engineering projects each year.
-- company
Hoofer Technologies Inc. is a Vancouver software company. We build our own products and run a consulting practice focused on database reliability. Our background is inside database internals: query execution and optimization, concurrency control, transactions, storage engines, and full-text search, built across commercial database vendors and research labs, with contributions to open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem tooling.
Based in Vancouver, BC. Working remotely with teams across North American time zones.
-- contact
Tell us what your database is doing to you. We reply within one business day. Or email info@hoofer.ca.