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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]
Startups and Venture
Netflix
Kubernetes
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.
Chip Design and Semiconductors
Artificial Intelligence
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...
Google
Exploit Development
Cloudflare
EVs and Transportation
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Apple
DuckDB
Six years after PostgreSQL shipped the table access method API, the alternative storage engine ecosystem is thriving—but messier than early predictions…
Uber
AI Agents
Artificial Intelligence
Java
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...
Defense Tech
Privacy
Messages could include "medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations," and more.
English fluency should not be the hidden admission ticket to AI tooling.
PostgreSQL
Snowflake's pg_lake and Databricks' Lakebase both wrap PostgreSQL for lakehouse workloads, but they're nearly opposite architectures.
Algorithms and Data Structures
Terraform
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, ...
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EVs and Transportation
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Uber
X / Twitter
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....
System Design
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 Coding Tools
Reverse Engineering
AI Psychosis
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…
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...
Two tips on using zig fmt effectively. Read this if you are writing Zig, or if you are implementing a code formatter.
Rust
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...
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WebSockets
AI Hardware
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.
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AWS
Rust
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 13 added insert-triggered autovacuum to solve a critical problem: append-only tables never vacuumed, breaking index-only scans and delaying tuple…