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Database Internals

This Data Structure Keeps Inserts Fast in Postgres

Hi everyone, I am continuing from the last post here. I tried to learn about How the Free Space Maps work in Postgres. Would love feedback and corrections from the people who know this stuff deeply. submitted by /u/IndicationAntique667 [link] [comments]

Kubernetes

How Discord Automates ScyllaDB Clusters at Scale

You've been asked to stand up a brand-new database cluster, meaning a whole day of configuring dozens of nodes, validating replication, wiring up dual-write pipelines… what if this whole ordeal took less than two hours? This is how we got ourselves into this exact mess, and how we made our way out of it.

Performance Engineering

Discord Incident

Artificial Intelligence

Enhancing Ad Relevance: Integrating Real-Time Context into Sequential Recommender Models

Huiqin Xin | Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Vertical Modeling; Lakshmi Manoharan | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Vertical Modeling; Karthik Jayasurya | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Signals; Ziwei Guo | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Vertical Modeling; Alina Liviniuk | Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Vertical ModelingMotivation: The Need for Real-Time ContextIn a previous post, Ads Candidate Generation using Behavioral Sequence Modeling, we introduced a candidate g...

Java

Scaling ArchUnit with Nebula ArchRules

By John Burns and Emily YuanIntroductionAt Netflix, we operate using a polyrepo strategy with tens of thousands of Java repositories. This means that we need to have ways of sharing common build logic across these repositories. On the JVM Ecosystem team within Java Platform, we build tooling such as the Nebula suite of Gradle plugins to provide standard ways to build projects, keep dependencies up-to-date, and publish artifacts reliably across the Java ecosystem. Our mission also entails pro...

Terraform

A Story of Delayed AWS Pipelines

How a seemingly simple AWS API call can silently slow down your CI/CD pipelinesReview/co-researcher: Gonzalo UllaThe MysteryIt started with a line in one of our team’s CI/CD logs that nobody expected:module.project.module.user_buckets.module.s3_bucket.data.aws_organizations_organization.current: Still reading… [15m10s elapsed]15 minutes and 10 seconds — just to read organization data. A value that should return in milliseconds was holding up entire pipelines.After digging deeper, ...

PostgreSQL

Shaun Thomas: No Compiler Required: Writing SQL-Only Postgres Extensions

Recently at Postgres Conference 2026 in San Jose, I presented a talk called Let's Build a Postgres Extension! Since that entire presentation was primarily focused on writing a C extension while exploring the Postgres source code, I only mentioned pure SQL extensions as an aside. But what's more likely in the Postgres community in general: C devs, or people who know SQL?It turns out that you can do a lot with functions, triggers, views, tables, and various other Postgres-native capabilities....

Anthropic

No Dumb Questions: What is an MCP server and why do I care?

Welcome to No Dumb Questions, a column where our least technical writer asks our technical staff the simple, basic tech questions people are afraid to ask. In this first entry, Stack's Director of Ecosystem Strategy Ben Marconi teaches us the basics of MCP servers and why they matter.

AI Psychosis

The Download: AI malaise and babymaking tech

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. We’ve entered the era of AI malaise AI is spreading everywhere, and it is not going away. But what will it do? What effect will it have on our society? Will…

MongoDB

GeoJSON

Database Migration

Are declarative JSON-based schema migrations actually the next step or just hype? Is anyone actually using declarative approaches?

I’ve been exploring a different approach to database migrations where the schema and relationships are defined declaratively in JSON instead of writing imperative SQL migration files manually. The interesting part is that the system can infer diffs, apply changes, track relationships, and potentially keep backend/frontend data contracts more aligned automatically. Honestly, not sure if this is genuinely helpful or if I'm just tired of debugging migration scripts at weird hours. Do you think...

Zig

Steering Zig Fmt

Two tips on using zig fmt effectively. Read this if you are writing Zig, or if you are implementing a code formatter.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL optimization examples found with pgAssistant 2.8

pgAssistant Global Advisor Hi, I have been working on an open-source PostgreSQL analysis tool called pgAssistant. One of the goals of the project is to combine: deterministic PostgreSQL analysis execution plan analysis (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) with Index Advisor, PEV2 integration optional AI assistance on query analysis with context (query plan, DDL, statistics, database configuration) I recently added a new "Global Advisor" in version 2.8 that aggregates database recommendations into a single ran...

AI Hardware

AI giveth and AI taketh CPU

Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to inference, and the paradox of agents both eating up all the compute and helping AMD accelerate chip innovation.