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Cloudflare recently introduced Cache Response Rules, a rules engine that operates after an origin server responds but before content is written to Cloudflare's cache. Previously, Cache Rules operated only on request attributes. Cache…
PostgreSQL's JIT compiler trades upfront compilation time for faster query execution—but it silently does nothing if the LLVM library isn't installed.
In this No Dumb Questions, Phoebe asks Stack’s Engineering Manager Doug Whitley and Product Manager Ash Zade everything she wants to know about AI context architecture. What exactly is it? Why is it so important? What makes for good AI…
See how four GitHub agent apps can help you scope, secure, roll out, and ship a feature across the SDLC–all without leaving GitHub. The post How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps appeared first on The…
Do you like building Postgres extensions? Of course you do! My "Let's Build a Postgres Extension" presentation garnered rave reviews at Postgres Conference 2026 in San Jose and PG Data 2026 in Chicago. But what if you didn't go? Sure the…
A pile of containers is not a shipment. A shipment is containers plus a manifest.Apache Iceberg is the manifest. It is not a file format, it is a table format: a metadata layer that records exactly which Parquet files make up a table at…
Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and…
Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network…
Introducing Cloudflare Access for Workers. Attach an Access policy directly to a Worker and it applies everywhere that Worker runs — routes, custom domains, workers.dev, and previews — automatically.
Build ESP32 firmware with reproducible Docker environments and use Docker Sandboxes for isolated AI-assisted development and hardware testing.
TimescaleDB continuous aggregates and late-arriving data: invalidation tracking, lookback windows, and the two offsets that prevent stale aggregate buckets.
One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an…
