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I’ve written a blog post on why and how we built our own distributed storage engine. We’re calling it Xatastor and enables us to scale to a huge number of Postgres instances and branches. It’s based on ZFS and NVMe-oF as key technologies. xata.io/blog/xatasto...

We rebuilt the storage engine behind Xata Cloud. Today we're talking about why: xata.io/blog/xatasto...

I got @home-assistant.io loading over a wasm build of @tailscale.com, completely in the browser :D

Getting into split keyboards after all these years! blog.divyendusingh.com/p/split-keyb...

Back to textbooks: Denmark rolls back digital learning. Denmark was quick to adopt digital technologies in the classroom, but wise enough to examine the impact on students, which led to a roll back in specific areas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKoC...

> tailscale is the secure way to connect all your computers! > i've used tailscale to connect my molty to all my computers and internal services and gave it all my keys oh no, not like that

Taking database snapshots and moving large volumes of data over the network is something our customers do regularly. While batching is the de facto way to make this efficient choosing the right batch size is non-trivial considering network variability, latency & system load. Read how we solved it👇🏽

New in xata clone: AI-assisted PII removal config (schema → strict config → validated).

@divyendusingh.com is doing a great job making agents do all sorts of stuff using databases. In our case with a few simple instructions, they are able to do branching operations, run queries, validate bug fixes and more. The blog posts are paired with demo videos, have a look 👀 👇🏽

Batching is often used to process large volumes of data but a batch size that works in one network setup can perform poorly in another. We applied automatic batch size tuning to Postgres snapshots in pgstream to adapt across different network environments. Check the post 👇 xata.io/blog/postgre...

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Can an AI Agent follow the same workflow that human developers can? We explored giving AI agent access to the database branch, a compute sandbox to execute code and instructions to follow a developer workflow (in plain English) and the experiment was a success.

We explored giving AI agents access to compute (via Sandbox) and database via Xata branches and some “commandments” to follow a developer-like workflow.

So excited for this one, looking forward to sharing our experience of building a LLM powered on-call database agent. As someone who is writing 90+% of code with agents in the last 2 months, looking forward to share the parallels and experience between coding and monitoring agents.

Just published a deep dive on how every Vercel preview gets a full production database copy. But that's not even the best bit. Want to know how to safely update your database schema add a column, rename a field, even do complex behind‑the‑scenes transformations while production keeps humming?

I haven't seen the stars But I have touched the tall trees Where's my Nintendo An original haiku by my ten year old son Duke whilst camping.

This matches my experience

GitHub released Spark yesterday, their extremely well crafted prompt-to-app platform for creating and iterating on React apps with user auth and persistent storage I like it a lot! I reverse engineered it with Spark itself, the details are fascinating simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/...

May was wild. One moment I’m design and coding, the next I’m on stage performing for millions. Still can’t believe it. Grateful for everything. 💙

📣 We have a brand new Postgres platform with: Instant Copy-on-Write branching Built-in data anonymization Separation of storage and compute 100% vanilla Postgres It’s for staging/dev environments as well as for production workloads. Blog post: xata.io/blog/xata-po... And more details in 🧵

Xata is one of the few female-founded companies in the Postgres world, and 40% of our team are women. Because inclusion is built, not wished for. Proud to host another "Women In Postgres" breakfast at #PGConfDE in Berlin. Great breakfast, even greater conversations! 💜

What time is it? It is PGConf time 🐘

Vibes of Szczecin 🇵🇱

Vibes from Düsseldorf

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Rest of World is one of my favorite outlets so imagine my surprise & delight opening it today and spotting my friend and former coworker Gulcin talking about the sexism women coders face in Turkey. Her efforts to organize & encourage this group is really admirable. restofworld.org/2025/turkeys...

Are there Senior/Staff+ Engineers on my timeline who want to work on the intersection of #Databases, #Caches, #Infra, Kubernetes/Operators and #Scaling #Algorithms (think time series, predictive scaling etc)? If so, please drop me a DM. Our small but mighty team at ClickHouse is growing!

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You have to write SQL queries in uppercase because the language is old and can’t hear you as well as it used to

zen book strikes again

Found this on HN, it is a life saver. I had locked myself out when I was yolo setting up 2FA w/ Yubikey on Ubuntu and this is how I got out. Wanted to document that process but now I can just bookmark this post. livesys.se/posts/the-ch...

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One of those techniques which seem so obvious in hindsight. Definitely going to be using this.

late to the ghiblification party, but here we are

Can't complaint, was on 🔥 yesterday

🔥 New pgroll release! v0.11 brings: 🔌 YAML support for migrations 🕓 Timestamps now with timezone info 📛 `name` field is now optional 🎻 Tables without primary key or unique column can be backfilled 🧹 Better errors Zero-downtime Postgres migrations, now smoother. 📖 Blog: pgroll.com/blog/pgroll-...

What a beautiful day to play ⚽️

Incredibly excited that the @electric-sql.com team shipped Electric Cloud today! 🚀🎉 This enables you to use the Electric sync engine without having to commission any infrastructure. Just give it your Postgres URL and you are ready to sync!

Yup. I call this stage 5: “acceptance”

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pgstream is an open-source CDC tool for #Postgres, and the new v0.4 release now adds Postgres-to-Postgres replication, snapshots, and data transformations. Handle schema changes seamlessly & anonymize sensitive data easily. Demo and tutorial details👇

Was facing exactly the same problem after splitting devices / main network into VLANs and life without @tailscale.com is so unintuitive that I didn't even think of this before reading this post.

Engineers joke - AMEN statement for committing transactions :) mariadb.org/amen-stateme...

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Legend says that the goal post is still rattling #Thursday #Football

1-2 through ball #Thursday #Football

I can't express how excited I am to share a preview of RedwoodSDK with the world. I have already built several apps with it, and it's the most productive I've felt in years. And, we're only getting started!

TIL about berlin.freifunk.net/en Basically free WiFi hot spots without any authentication in the city of Berlin.

Phones don’t capture the beauty of Sakura Or in gen-z speak: skill issue