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What Does a Compiler Look Like When Its Audience Isn't Human? Vercel's Zero Just Soft-Launched the Answer
For decades, the compiler has been writing to a human. Vercel's quiet release of Zero, a systems language whose diagnostics emit JSON, not prose, is the first widely watched attempt to make the assumption itself negotiable.
After pgBackRest's Close Call, Postgres Shops Are Drafting New Runbooks For Continuity
A DevOps engineer running production on pgBackRest, a senior DBA at the European Patent Office, a database lead at one of Europe's largest payments platforms, and a PostgreSQL contributor who maintains the most-likely-next-tool weigh in on what changes after the pgBackRest scare.
pgBackRest Is Back, But Open Source Has a Stewardship Problem It Can't Keep Ignoring
A look into what nearly broke when Postgres' most trusted backup tool went dark for a week, and why the rescue is its own kind of fragile.
AI-Generated Pull Requests Are Crashing Postgres Instances Daily, And the Only Way Through Is Architectural
Amanbolat Balabekov, Staff Engineer at Wolt, on why the bottleneck behind most AI initiatives isn't writing the code, it's the architectural balancing act between shipping features at lightspeed and keeping the infrastructure alive.
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