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Introducing TIN: full-text search for Postgres

One of the Postgres features our customers ask us for the most is full-text search. Today, we are excited to announce TIN: a fast, full-featured, reliable full-text search extension for Postgres. TIN stands for "Text INdex," and that is what it does. TIN is available immediately as a GA release for all Postgres and Neki databases. Check it out: CREATE INDEX an_index_name ON table_name USING tin(text_column_name); SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE text_column_name ==> 'some words'; We built TIN

Prisma vs Netlify: comparing TypeScript application platforms

Compare Prisma and Netlify for TypeScript apps: ORM 8, Postgres, Compute, Composer, preview databases, deployment workflows, and pricing.

R2, R2 Data Catalog - R2 Data Catalog adds table maintenance visibility and manual queueing

R2 Data Catalog now provides table-level maintenance visibility and manual compaction queueing in the Cloudflare dashboard. These updates make it easier to understand when maintenance is eligible to run, inspect completed operations, and request maintenance without leaving the table view. To view table maintenance details: In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to R2 Data Catalog. Select a catalog, then select the Explorer tab. The Explorer tab opens by default. Select a table. Select the Maintenance

TypeSafe AI's Jev now available on AI Gateway

is now available on .Jev from TypeSafe AIAI Gateway Jev is a probabilistic decision model for software: state goes in, typed Choice, Score, and Boolean answers come out. Regular language models generate text one token at a time, which the application then parses and validates. Jev evaluates all declared questions in parallel and returns typed answers plus probabilities directly. That removes unnecessary text generation and makes it straightforward to automate clear cases while routing uncertain

Prisma vs Vercel for TypeScript apps: which platform?

Prisma vs Vercel compared for TypeScript apps: what each platform provisions and checks for you, preview databases, migrations, runtime limits, and pricing.

Building Answer Lineage for Enterprise Data Agents

If a data agent returns €18.6M, production observability should tell you exactly how that answer was constructed. Most Text-to-SQL pipelines log prompts, generated SQL, latency, tokens, and execution status. Those signals matter, but when a business user says, “This number is wrong,” they are not enough. The failure may have happened before SQL generation: "Revenue" → wrong metric "Germany" → wrong dimension Customer data → wrong relationship path "Last quarter" → wrong time interpret

Voters mostly don’t like AI and data centers, but neither party seems to have an edge

Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular. Asked if they support or oppose the construction of data centers to power AI tech, 61 percent of the 1,503 likely voters surveyed in early September (ahead of the recent AI safety slowdown discussion) said they were opposed, with only 14 percent saying they strongly support. The split was about even a