Yesterday, we had our first meetup at our new venue, which we hope will become our permanent home: the Chicago Innovations Center at 1 W. Monroe. We had the pleasure of having Elizabeth Christensen from Snowflake, who delivered a talk…
PostgreSQL 19 brings back MERGE PARTITIONS and SPLIT PARTITION—but simpler and safer than the first attempt.

When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner…
After a year and one million messages, Elastic's Field Technology team shares five lessons from building production AI agents: why logs matter most, how retrieval thresholds shape quality, and what high token counts actually signal.