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Platform Engineering

Align your architecture backlog with Tech Roadmap Prioritization (TRP)

In this post, we show you how to run a one-hour prioritization session with your stakeholders, plot competing initiatives on a shared matrix by cost and impact and turn the result into an actionable architecture backlog - using a framework called Tech Roadmap Prioritization (TRP).

AI Coding Tools

Angular v22

Homelab & Self-Hosting

How virtual power plants could provide energy for data centers

Would you take a payment to ramp down your electricity use? Would it change anything if you were doing so to help power a local data center? Google just signed a new deal to help pay for a virtual power plant (VPP) in the largest power grid in the US. The agreement is with Voltus,…

Database Migration

Why I Built a Better MongoDB Migration Tool and Switched Off migrate-mongo Without Re-running Everything

I didn’t set out to build a migration tool. I just wanted to roll back one bad migration on a Friday afternoon. Instead, I spent two hours manually undoing database changes while my coffee went cold. That was the moment. The Friday That Broke My Patience For years, we used migrate-mongo. And to be fair — it works. You write an up, write a down, run migrations in order, and move on. For smaller projects, that’s enough. Until it isn’t. As our system grew, migrations became more frequent...

Authentication

How Agentforce Conversation Client Accelerated Accessibility Remediation by 5x Using AI-Driven Workflows

By Prasanna Krishna Sanagala, Ronak Shah, Sandeep Tailor, and Mani Manjari Velnati. In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Prasanna Krishna Sanagala, Lead Software Engineer on the Agentforce Conversation Client (ACC) team. Prasanna helps build and scale the conversational UI platform powering experiences across […] The post How Agentforce Conversation Client Accelerated Accessibility Remediation ...

Embedded Systems

ESP32-S31

AWS

Building highly available Oracle databases with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

This post shows how to build a highly available Oracle database architecture using FSxN shared storage, Auto Scaling groups with dynamic AMI updates, and serverless orchestration to help reduce recovery times with current configurations.

Artificial Intelligence

Investing in Workers to Work with AI

A major impetus for companies investing in AI training is assuaging employees' fears of AI taking their jobs.

Web Performance

Shopify Is Down

AI Psychosis

Encephalitis

I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis. It is an autoimmune disorder where your body’s normally helpful antibodies start acting strangely. This leads to inflammation in the brain. This short blog briefly discusses some of my experience and prognosis. Target audience: Anyone relying on my work for their own projects.

Defense Tech

The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare

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. 5 key points in Trump’s new AI order Less than two weeks after scrapping an executive order on AI, President Donald Trump signed a new one on Tuesday. Promising to promote…

Query Planning

Hans-Juergen Schoenig: Handling graphs with SQL/PGQ in PostgreSQL

Starting with version 19 of PostgreSQL users will be able to enjoy something exceptionally useful which will help developers to build even more powerful applications even more quickly. SQL/PGQ — the ISO/IEC 9075-16 (2023) syntax for querying graphs that live in regular relational tables - will be available. This series of posts will explain how this new functionality works and how it can be used to leverage the power of PostgreSQL 19 and beyond. Your First Graph Query in PostgreSQL 19 ...