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Hi all, The talk schedule for Postgres Summit US 2026 is now published. Browse it here: Talk Schedule The summit runs September 30 through October 2, 2026 at Convene, 555 Broadway, New York, NY, organized by the United States PostgreSQL Association (PgUS). You can also view individual sessions and register on the event site. Hope to see you in New York!
Autobase 2.10 expands day-to-day PostgreSQL operations with new cluster management capabilities. Administrators can now perform common cluster actions directly from the Console UI, configure advanced system settings, deploy clusters using the local disk, and automate maintenance with an extended set of Ansible playbooks. See the full details in the release notes. Highlights Cluster management actions Autobase Enterprise includes an Actions menu that allows administrators to perform common Postgr
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Not long ago we watched a production MySQL database melt down for sixteen minutes. The errors started as a trickle, a handful per minute, then fed on themselves: minute errors/min queries/s 0 5 15,000 <- a burst of work arrives 2 60 3,900 4 300 2,500 6 550 2,000 8 900 1,900 10 1,400 1,500 <- error peak = throughput trough 12 700 1,700 14 250
You can now set pull request limits at the organization level. Pull request limits let you define how many open pull requests a user without write access can have at… The post Set pull request limits at the organization level appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
This is going to be an unpopular one, and I would like to be argued out of it. A capable agent driving a real browser on a residential connection is indistinguishable from a person by construction. Not "hard to distinguish". Not "we are working on it". By construction — because every property you can measure is genuinely present. The browser is real, so the fingerprint is real. The connection is a home connection, so the address is clean. The mailbox is real, so the code arrives. Automation flag
Every bot signal we have is a proxy for one question: is a human here? Device fingerprint says a real browser. IP reputation says a home connection, not a rented server. Email verification says someone opened the mailbox and clicked. Behavioural analysis says the mouse moved like a person's. A capable AI agent has all of those things. It drives a real browser, because that is how it browses. It runs on a residential connection, because that is where the person who deployed it lives. It controls
Hey there, it's your old man developer. I'm a 38-year-old side-hustle engineer, tinkering with AI agents and automated trading bots on weeknights and weekends. Developing an automated trading bot often means a long road after you get an idea. Translating a strategy into code, backtesting it with historical data, tuning parameters... it can easily take weeks. And usually, most ideas get trashed at the backtesting stage with a simple "this is useless." This kind of rework is soul-crushing for a so
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