NVIDIA
NVIDIA
NVIDIA
EVs and Transportation
Kubernetes
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...
Compilers
CVE and Exploit Development
Generative AI
Streaming Analytics
OpenAI
AI Psychosis
Apple
EVs and Transportation
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.
OpenAI
Chip Design and Semiconductors
xAI
GPU and Parallel Computing
Startups and Venture
Google DeepMind
F#
Meta AI
Open Source
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…
Open Source
Startups and Venture
Agentic Commerce and Payments
System Design
Startups and Venture
Package Management
Privacy
LLM Evaluation
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…
AI Agents
SQLite
EVs and Transportation
Exploit Development
Startups and Venture
xAI
Web Application Security
Prompt Engineering
Database Administration and Tooling
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…
AI Psychosis
PostgreSQL
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...
Compilers
The Compiler takes a serious amount of time, skill, and luck to get to. Someone on eBay is selling an easy fix.
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...
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).
Cryptography
Cloudflare IPsec now has generally available support for post-quantum encryption via hybrid ML-KEM. We’ve confirmed interoperability with Cisco and Fortinet.
Privacy
Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?
Meta
AI Agents
Agents are everywhere, so isn't it fitting that the Worst Coder in the World goes agentic? A coding newbie explores the challenges and rewards of building an agent for work—and trying to learn a few things about coding along the way.
Netflix
Spotify
Defense Tech
AirKamuy is shipping flatpacked drones made of paper that cost around $2,000.
xAI
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…
Open Source
Meta
PostgreSQL
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...
Software Engineering
LLM Evaluation
Algorithms and Data Structures
PostgreSQL
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...
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