IMPORTANT: Please see our writing guidelines before pitching a topic or writing your article.

This document is intended to help you craft an article proposal for the Better Stack Community. By following the guidelines described here, you’re more likely to get your proposal approved and eventually published!

We’ll use our article on logging in PostgreSQL to demonstrate examples on how to pitch your article proposal. Please follow the structure outlined below.

Proposed title

Decide on a working title for your article, something click-worthy that encapsulates what the article is about.

Example

PostgreSQL Logging: Everything You Need to Know

Describe the main aim of the article

This section is where you describe the scope of the article. In general, we prefer to keep the scope narrow do deep dives on the subject at hand.

Example

This article aims to do a deep dive on PostgreSQL logging, giving insights into the various parameters available and how to configure them, and informing readers to get proactive at database logging.

List a minimum of 5 subtopics

In this section, fill out at least 5 subtopics that you’ll cover in the article.

Example

1. How to locate and read PostgreSQL logs.
2. How to configure PostgreSQL logging settings.
3. The various types of PostgreSQL logs.
4. How to customize the log format (also setting up JSON logging).
5. How to log PostgreSQL queries (including query duration).