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These two parameters close out the bgwriter cluster. Together with bgwriter_delay, they govern how the background writer decides what to write each round, and they are where the actual leverage lives — the previous post ended by saying so…
Ubuntu has outlined its AI strategy, describing it as a deliberate departure from industry trends towards cloud-centric, AI-first operating systems. Instead, the company says, Ubuntu will focus future releases on local intelligence,…
At the recent Next ‘26 conference, Google introduced Google Cloud Fraud Defense, the successor to reCAPTCHA. The platform goes beyond basic bot detection to address broader online fraud across login, account creation, and payment flows,…
Microsoft has released Aspire 13.3, introducing a new aspire destroy command for tearing down deployments across Azure, Kubernetes, and Compose. The release adds native Kubernetes deployment in preview, first-class JavaScript publishing…
The B cluster shifts gears: from one-off oddities to the background writer parameters, which span four GUCs. We do the first two as a pair because bgwriter_delay introduces the process at all, and bgwriter_flush_after slots cleanly into…
Two remote code execution bugs lived in pgcrypto for twenty years until an AI fuzzer found them in a weekend. Here's what you need to know.
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM)…
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by…
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe is joined by Stack Overflow’s tech lead for the infrastructure team, Josh Zhang, to learn about the cloud, compute, and data centers.
Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Anthropic has introduced a new feature called Routines for Claude Code, allowing developers to configure automated coding workflows that run on schedules, through API calls, or in response to external events. By Daniel Dominguez
Giant `IN` clauses inflate PostgreSQL planning time and spike p99 latency. Learn how `ANY(ARRAY[])` cuts the hidden planning tax and keeps your app fast at scale.
