Nobody asked for max_notify_queue_pages. It exists because a limit that used to enforce itself stopped doing so, and something had to take its place. LISTEN/NOTIFY runs on a single queue for the whole cluster, stored as SLRU pages under…
Role-level timeouts and read-only flags sound safe until you realize the session can change them in one statement.

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to…

Vanessa Huerta Granda explains how marathon incidents expose the gap between work as imagined and work as done. Drawing from real-world scenarios, she shares how complex outages reveal organizational fragility, human limits, and system…