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Ken W Alger6d ago • 5 min read
Durable Memory: Why Vector Databases Aren't Enough
Part 3 of the Building the AI Memory Stack series After finishing Part 2, I noticed something. The...
#ai#llm#database#architecture
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Matty Stratton2d ago • 11 min read
Don't Give the Model SQL
My health data has six traps in it that have each already produced a wrong answer. Given SQL, a mode...
#ai#llm#programming#database
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Matty Stratton2d ago • 11 min read
The Past Keeps Changing
Apple Health revises days after they have closed, and 69% of the values my pipeline has watched land...
#postgres#database#sql#programming
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Chen1d ago • 4 min read
I let an AI agent write to my database. 11 of 17 records diverged from what I asked for.
I asked an AI agent to add a customer: "New customer Omer Adam, email omer@example.com, age 30." It...
#ai#java#database#gemini
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hyuga6d ago • 6 min read
I attacked my own npm package before launching it. It let the proposer approve their own writes
My library exists so a human approves an LLM's UPDATE before it runs. It never checked that the appr...
#opensource#ai#security#database
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Alex Merced1d ago • 17 min read
Apache Data Lakehouse Weekly: August 10 to 18, 2026
The lakehouse community spent this week deciding what gets carried forward and what gets left behind...
#bigdata#data#database#opensource
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Shubhesh Shukla5d ago • 3 min read
DB Connect: a database IDE that lets your AI assistant actually query your database
Most database GUIs were designed before "AI coding assistant" was a category. You'd find a bug,...
#ai#database#software#tools
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Sanu Khan1d ago • 8 min read
How to Scale a Backend From 1 User to 1 Million Users
System Design from Developer to Architect --- Part 1 In Part 0, we started with a simple rule:...
#systemdesign#architecture#backend#database
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nicolas.vbgh6d ago • 12 min read
Faster Bulk Inserts in PostgreSQL
Two tables. band, and song pointing at it with a foreign key. Four tracks to an EP, twenty million.....
#postgres#database#performance#python
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Subham3d ago • 8 min read
Dissecting Databases: CockroachDB Has Almost Every Postgres Feature - So Why Is It the Default Answer for Distributed SQL?
The Question Nobody Asks Out Loud Open CockroachDB's docs and the first thing you notice...
#cockroachdb#postgres#distributedsystems#database
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Franck Pachot3d ago • 7 min read
OrioleDB Multi-Version Concurrency Control
MVCC not only tracks row history but also records the search-key space. To better understand...
#postgres#sql#database#orioledb
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David Essien6d ago • 5 min read
Rate Limiting Isn't One Layer: What LogicVisor and Titan Actually Do Differently
"Add rate limiting" sounds like one task. It's actually three separate layers, each defending agains...
#backend#architecture#database#webdev
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Prajapati Paresh1d ago • 4 min read
Defeating the OFFSET Death Spiral: Cursor Pagination
The Illusion of Standard Pagination When you build a data-heavy application—like an e-commerce...
#laravel#php#database#architecture
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Hassan Yosuf3d ago • 6 min read
We benchmarked CognoDB against four graph databases. Here's what "free tier" actually buys you.
A field guide for anyone choosing a managed graph database on a budget - and a template for not...
#graphdatabase#benchmarketing#database#cloud
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Son Tran5d ago • 11 min read
Schema Linting vs Migration Linting: Which Database Problems Each One Can See
Migration linters read the statement you are about to run. Schemity's schema lint reads the model yo...
#database#sql#postgres#architecture
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Ted47m ago • 6 min read
The Commit Was Named After the Wrong Half
I shipped a 4,600-line fix for 220 pages serving an empty shell to crawlers, and fixed a fifteen-lin...
#seo#webdev#debugging#database
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corpdigest5d ago • 2 min read
Your acquisitions table needs a status field, not a boolean
Most schemas model corporate acquisitions as a join table: acquirer_id, target_id, price,...
#database#sql#datascience
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André Wenceslau1d ago • 8 min read
Postgres RLS multi-tenancy: two leaks that survive correct policies
I wrote an earlier post about two traps that silently switch Postgres row level security...
#postgres#database#security#webdev
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David Bartalos5d ago • 10 min read
Nine of Thirteen Corrections Were Wrong: The Fix That Came With a Proof It Couldn't Work
Nine of the thirteen corrections our migration code had ever written in production were wrong. We...
#postgres#database#datamigration#debugging
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Luis Henrique Vasconcelos5d ago • 4 min read
I Reverse-Engineered a Restaurant ERP With No Documentation. Here's What It Taught Me About Being a Self-Taught Developer.
There is no manual for TronSoft. No API reference, no schema diagram, no forum thread explaining why...
#reverseengineering#database#career#sql
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David Bartalos5d ago • 9 min read
Replace the Heuristic With a Boundary: Rebuilding a Leave Table as an Append-Only Ledger
We deleted the reconciliation step from a data migration and replaced it with a single timestamp....
#postgres#architecture#database#datamigration
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Aditya Agarwal2d ago • 3 min read
Virtual threads didn't scale your app. They just moved the crash to your database.
When Java 21 was released with virtual threads, everyone celebrated, including myself. Then...
#java#performance#database#concurrency
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jamilxt1d ago • 8 min read
DuckDB v2.0 Is Becoming a Real Database Server. Here Is How to Use It in Spring Boot Today
Yesterday the DuckDB team published a preview of version 2.0, codename Cyanoptera, and it immediatel...
#java#springboot#duckdb#database
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Ted5h ago • 6 min read
The Audit Became a Build Step
I audited my travel site's legal-status dataset twice and the drift came back anyway — because an au...
#database#buildpipeline#ai#webdev
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