I’m pleased to announce that Part II of the “ PostgreSQL 14 Internals ” book is available now. This part explores the purpose and design of the buffer cache and explains the need for write-ahead logging.
Please download the book freely in PDF. There are three…

Back in May, I wrote (https://blog.heroku.com/we-heard-your-feedback) about my enthusiasm to be part of the Heroku story, and I remain just as...

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More than seven years after Congress mandated it and EFF sued to pry them loose, the government released seven heavily-redacted but previously classified rulings from the Foreign Intelligence

😱 Wait! What? Just when you think you’ve seen it all…. Meta’s chatbot replied to the question askedby my colleague @kingjen: ’Who is a terrorist?’ with my (given) name! That’s right, not Bin Laden or the Unabomber, but me… How did that happen? What are Meta’s…

Nature Human Behaviour - New ethics guidance addresses potential harms for human population groups who do not participate in research but may be harmed by its publication.

Around 1875 the U.S. had none of the world’s leading research universities; today, it accounts for the majority of the top-ranked. Many observers cite events surrounding World War II as the source of this reversal. We present evidence that U.S. research universities…

While mostly of benefit to server administrators with large fleets of hardware, Linux 6.1 aims to make it easier to help spot problematic CPUs/cores by reporting the likely socket and core when a segmentation fault occurs, which can help in spotting any trends…

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Managing dependencies of multiple projects across multiple repositories can be time-consuming and error-prone. A monorepo, on the other hand, is a code management or architectural concept that consolidates all the isolated codebases of multiple proje...

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at no cost. In a memorandum to federal departments and agencies…

Learn how Authzed improved their Playground experience by compiling SpiceDB into WebAssembly, resulting in near-instant responses and simplified architecture. Explore the benefits and try it out now.

Yesterday, Vox somehow managed to write an entire article about the history of Oracle and its founder Larry Ellison without mentioning the CIA even once.

Perhaps it will turn out that you were called to be an artist. If that is your fate, then accept it and deal with it, the highs and the lows, the burden and the greatness, without ever worrying about external rewards.

The DuckDuckGo Email Protection beta is now open for all. It's a free email forwarding service that removes multiple types of hidden email trackers and lets you create unlimited unique private email addresses on the fly – without switching email providers…