cartero Saturday, August 15, 2026 · No. 26071
Software Engineering

The Story of Mel

Fintech

Putting the Tech in Fintech: How We Use FIX to Execute Trades at Scale

At Wealthfront, the “tech” in financial technology isn’t just a buzzword—it’s the foundation of everything we build. Beneath the intuitive frontend our clients interact with lies a complex ecosystem of distributed systems. One of the most critical pieces of that backend architecture is the engine that enables us to route massive volumes of trades efficiently. ... Read more

Compilers

MiMo-v2.5-Pro

X / Twitter

The Slide

They don’t want to hear it. They don’t. It is legit good feedback. It is substantive, and it is 100% true, but they do not want to hear it. How do you know this? You’ve provided the feedback several times. Three different variants of the critical feedback, and each time, the response is one of… more

AWS

PACIFIC enables multi-tenant, sovereign product carbon footprint exchange on the Catena-X data space using AWS

This post explores how PACIFIC enables multi-tenant, sovereign PCF exchange on the Catena-X data space using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate, Amazon Cognito, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to deliver measurable environmental impact and competitive advantage in a carbon-conscious marketplace.

Cloudflare

Making Rust Workers reliable: panic and abort recovery in wasm‑bindgen

Panics in Rust Workers were historically fatal, poisoning the entire instance. By collaborating upstream on the wasm‑bindgen project, Rust Workers now support resilient critical error recovery, including panic unwinding using WebAssembly Exception Handling.

PostgreSQL

Christophe Pettus: Give Us Access, Already

If you’re going to hire a PostgreSQL consultant, hire one. That means access to the database. I’m writing this because the “we hired you but you can’t touch the thing” conversation happens at the start of roughly one in four PGX engagements, and I would like to have …

AI Psychosis

Podcast: How Algorithms Make Us Feel Bad and Weird

Lost in the wedding algorithm sauce, "clean rooms" for AI, and founders obsessed with "tokenmaxxing" in this week's 404 Media Podcast.

Parquet and columnar formats

3.4M Solar Panels

Defense Tech

The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

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. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launches, hype, and warnings. To cut through…

Monitoring and Alerting

Antony Pegg: Introducing the AI DBA Workbench: PostgreSQL Monitoring That Diagnoses, Not Just Reports

PostgreSQL is dominating the database market, and the monitoring tools haven't noticed.More teams run Postgres in production every year. More of those deployments are distributed, multi-region, and mission-critical. And the tooling most of those teams rely on was built for a simpler world: a single instance, a handful of threshold alerts, and a senior DBA who can interpret what the graphs mean at 3 AM. That works when you have one cluster and one person who knows where the bodies are buried. ...