cartero Saturday, August 15, 2026 · No. 26030
Kubernetes

How AI-Driven Kubernetes Optimization Reclaimed Millions from 47% Idle Capacity

By Shan Appajodu and Tuhin Kanti Sharma. Salesforce faced significant infrastructure challenges while scaling Hyperforce, the platform powering thousands of cloud services. Fragmentation across more than 8,000 Kubernetes-based services led to widespread over-provisioning, with nearly half of managed Kubernetes spend tied to idle capacity. While internal systems identified these inefficiencies, our service owners lacked the […] The post How AI-Driven Kubernetes Optimization Reclaimed Million...

PostgreSQL

Bruce Momjian: New Presentation

I just gave a new presentation at PGDay Armenia titled Building an MCP Server Using Postgres. The talk is a follow-up to my Databases in the AI Trenches talk, and explores how MCP allows functionality beyond LLMs and RAG alone. It includes MCP demos of a radiation detector and pretzel bakery.

Open Source

Christophe Pettus: PHP Goes BSD

The php.internals vote closed on April 4, and PHP 9.0 will ship under the 3-clause BSD license. The RFC, driven by Ben Ramsey, replaces both the PHP License v3.01 and the Zend Engine License v2.0 with a single, OSI-recognized, FSF-recognized, GPL-compatible permissive license that has been sittin…

LLM Evaluation

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is built than was once thought possible. Goodfire claims Silico…

Database Administration and Tooling

Christophe Pettus: After pgBackRest

pgBackRest is now unmaintained. If you were running pgBackRest in production — and a lot of people were running pgBackRest in production — what do you actually do now? The honest answer has three parts. First: the world has not ended. pgBackRest still works. The git repository still exists, the b…

Caching Strategies

Muhammad Aqeel: Volatile Queries and Semantic Caching: How to Make Sure It Always Returns the Right Answer

Part 3 of the Semantic Caching in PostgreSQL series. Part 1 covers the fundamentals of  — how it stores query embeddings, runs cosine similarity searches via pgvector, and returns cached LLM results without a round-trip to your model provider. Part 2 goes deeper into production operations: cache tags, eviction policies, monitoring, and Python integration patterns. This post focuses on a specific class of queries that need to be handled differently, and where that handling belongs.A well...

Connection Pooling

Luca Ferrari: pgagroal 2.1.0 is out!

A new release of the fast connection pooler for PostgreSQL! pgagroal 2.1.0 is out! Yesterday the version 2.1.0 of pgagroal has been released! This is a feature release, and the full changelog is available here. This release provides a lot of new features, most notably: a web console to monitor Prometheus metrics; an improved failover support; an health check process; improve pgagroal-cli ping command output to provide information about the health of the servers; improve the test...

PostgreSQL

Luca Ferrari: A very illuminating article about contributing to Open Source and PostgreSQL

An interesting article about PostgreSQL and Open Source. A very illuminating article about contributing to Open Source and PostgreSQL Abdelrhman Sersawy wrote an article titled How I started contributing to PostgreSQL in which he describes how he started to write code for the community. I think the article is very good and detailed, as well as illuminating. It reminds me how I felt the very first times I was pushing commits to the open source ecosystem (not only to PostgreSQL).

xAI

The Download: the North Pole’s future and humanoid data

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. Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past In the past, getting to the North Pole involved a treacherous trip through ice many meters thick. But last year, a research vessel…

PostgreSQL

Valeria Kaplan: Why sell the idea of contributing to PostgreSQL to your employer

How contribution decisions shape the sustainability of the PostgreSQL ecosystemLast week at PGConf.DE, I gave a talk titled Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer.It didn’t attract a large audience. To be fair, it was right after lunch on the last day of the conference, and there was strong competition from two excellent technical talks. Plus… why bother talking to your employer about contributing to PostgreSQL? :)The news this week that David Steele, the co...

PostgreSQL

Umair Shahid: The best PostgreSQL databases are boring on purpose

Boring is an investment. Exciting is a bill.The calmest PostgreSQL deployments in production share one trait. They are boring. Pages stay quiet. Dashboards stay green. The on-call engineer reads a book on Tuesday night. And the people running those databases will tell you, plainly, that boring is the achievement.Think about flying for a minute. The flight everyone wants is the one where the captain says hello, the meal shows up on time, and a few hours later, the wheels touch down in the righ...