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Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer and LaTeX to a serverless Rust architecture powered by…
This virtual panel brings together AI security experts to examine the evolution of AI-driven threats, from prompt injection and data poisoning to agent abuse and AI-powered social engineering. The discussion explores emerging attack…
In this episode, Heroku co-founder and Ink & Switch founder Adam Wiggins argues for a 'local-first' architecture that reconciles cloud-based collaboration with the performance and data ownership of local software. He explores the role of…
Having written about the Swiss PGDay in 2024, I need not repeat all I said back then. Nonetheless, I'd like to share my impressions from the Swiss PGDay 2026 with you. Turning on to the Swiss PGDay The Swiss PGDay traditionally takes place…
GitLab's 2026 AI Accountability Report highlights an AI Paradox: although 78% of developers say they code faster, overall software delivery has not accelerated due to downstream testing and review bottlenecks and new challenges for…
Picking Up Where We Left Off In the previous post, I tried to lay out the framing half of this material: what actually counts as a disaster, why preparation and prevention aren’t the same as recovery, and how RPO and RTO end up being…
On June 23 2026, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group met. Organized by: Valeria Kaplan Chris Ellis Alastair Turner Michael Christofides Speakers: Andreas Karlsson Alastair Turner Valeria Kaplan On June 23, 2026, the Meetup PostgreSQL Lille…
Incremental sort exploits presorted data to avoid expensive full sorts, but cost estimation errors on skewed data can backfire.
New research shows Australian businesses are blowing AI budgets on tokenmaxxing instead of fixing their underlying data foundations. Discover why data quality, not the model, determines your true AI ROI for the new financial year.
On Elastic Observability Serverless, metrics data stored in TSDS index mode is now priced at 25% of the standard Observability per-GB rate for both ingest and retention.
Everyone knows not to store money as a double precision. One can hope. The rule is so well drilled that it has stopped being interesting, and it is also not where the trouble usually starts. The float is already in the schema before anyone…
Currently available as a beta in Xcode 27, Swift 6.4 introduces a range of enhancements: better C interoperability, simplified OS availability check, fine-grained warning control, async support in defer, efficient iteration for…
