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59 postsPostgreSQL VACUUM's Page-Level Byte-by-Byte Inspection
PostgreSQL VACUUM's three-stage operational mechanism was analyzed at the page level using pageinspect, pg_visibility, and pg_freespacemap. The difference between LP_DEAD and LP_UNUSED becomes clearer.
A Sociotechnical Threat Model for AI-Driven Smart Home Devices
This study proposes a sociotechnical threat model addressing privacy risks faced by domestic workers using AI-driven smart home devices.
Hybrid Multi-Tenant Architecture for Stateful AWS Services
A large ad-serving platform replaced its inefficient cellular AWS design with tier-cell architecture and PrivateLink, cutting onboarding to minutes.
CommitBrief — AI code reviews, right in your terminal
A provider-agnostic, local-first CLI that reviews your staged changes, a historic range, or a whole GitHub pull request. Zero telemetry, no server. Free and open source.
commitbrief.comSentry Lets AI Agents Build and Edit Dashboards
Sentry now offers agentic dashboard creation and editing, replacing Insights pages with cloneable templates and adding full CLI-based dashboard management.
GitHub Enterprise Server Rebuilds Search Architecture with Elasticsearch CCR
GitHub moves Enterprise Server HA installations to Elasticsearch's Cross Cluster Replication to end fragile, cluster-wide search index failures.
How GitHub Made Diff Lines Fast Again
GitHub redesigned its React-based Files changed tab to cut DOM node counts and JS heap usage. Here's how large pull request diffs got dramatically faster.
Stripe Helps Businesses Cut Network Costs With Visa's DCAP
Visa's new DCAP program cuts interchange costs on card-not-present transactions. Stripe's Authorization Boost delivered $18.4M in annualized savings while protecting authorization rates.
Scaling LLM Usage with LiteLLM: Monitoring, Quotas and Spend
Midas engineers explain how they built a unified LiteLLM gateway to centralize LLM observability, spend tracking, and per-environment quotas.
How Hepsiburada Centralized Monitoring with VictoriaMetrics
Hepsiburada moved from fragmented Prometheus stacks to a dual-site VictoriaMetrics architecture to monitor 2000+ servers and 500+ Kubernetes clusters.
Cursor and OpenVSX face extension hijacking risk
Trendyol's security team uncovered a live namespace-squatting attack abusing OpenVSX to hijack extensions in Cursor, VSCodium, Windsurf and other VS Code forks.