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.
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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.
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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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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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PostgreSQL 13 added insert-triggered autovacuum to solve a critical problem: append-only tables never vacuumed, breaking index-only scans and delaying tuple…
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Higher education is struggling with allowing students to use AI on homework or tests, and some have adopted a tiered system where permission varies from banishment to heavy usage.
Anthropic
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xAI
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Anthropic
Most Postgres management tools ask you to pick a lane. You can manage databases, or you can manage the services around them. You can run in containers, or you can run on bare metal. You get one deployment model, one operational surface, one set of assumptions about how your infrastructure works.The pgEdge Control Plane just added two features that refuse to pick a lane: Supporting Services and systemd Support. Together, they push the Control Plane into territory that, as far as we can tell, n...
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