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How Amazon Fire TV redesigned its Continue Watching watch-progress data model on Amazon DynamoDB with vertical partitioning and hash-prefixed sort keys for parallel reads, removing item-size limits, cutting write costs…
PgBouncer 1.26.0 has been released. This release fixes three CVEs: CVE-2026-19888: DoS due to crash, triggerable by unauthenticated clients. Caused by a SCRAM client-final-message without a nonce. CVE-2026-6668: DoS due…
October's hacking workshop will cover my talk, pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?. If you're interesting in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite…
Escrevi uma ideia de startup propositalmente absurda em um livro. Depois resolvi construir a ideia de verdade. Agora existe um site em que um contador global chega a zero e alguém precisa apertar um botão para salvar o…
A recent question on the community channels described a difficult situation: a standby had been promoted with archive_mode=off, and restarting the new primary was something the team wanted to avoid. Could they enable…
arXiv:2609.22917v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Non-technical stakeholders frequently cannot write the SQL needed to extract insights from operational databases. We built and evaluated a Text-to-SQL agent that closes…
It’s been a month since I published the first part of this research, and interest from the Postgres community has been higher than I expected. Most vendors I contacted were shy to respond, so the Databricks team’s blog…
max_pred_locks_per_transaction has the naming problem of max_locks_per_transaction, and then one of its own. Like its namesake, it is a table size quoted per backend slot, not a limit on any transaction. Unlike its…
#666 — September 23, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Looking Forward to Postgres 19: Epilogue — Postgres 19 is having an eventful beta, with several headline features pulled and no release date. Shaun digs into why…
🚀 Frontend Focus #759 — September 23, 2026 | Read on the web 🧭 WebKit Features for Safari 27.0 — An epic set of release notes covers Safari 27's enhancements, including its new MCP server (let agents debug your work),…