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8 postsInterdict: A Postgres Safety Layer Against Rogue AI Agents
Interdict simulates risky SQL writes from AI agents before execution, measures exact blast radius, makes changes undoable, and blocks unsafe statements without human approval.
aipostgresdatabasesmcpPostgreSQL JSONB vs MongoDB BSON: The Real Architectural Tradeoffs
BSON and JSONB reveal deep architectural differences between MongoDB and PostgreSQL, shaping indexing, update cost, and read performance trade-offs.
postgresqlmongodbjsonbbsonPostgreSQL Benchmark: AWS RDS vs Self-Hosted Hetzner (2026)
In a 2026 2 vCPU/4GB PostgreSQL 16 benchmark, Hostim led on writes, Hetzner won reads on raw CPU, and RDS trailed once hidden costs are counted.
postgresqlbenchmarkaws-rdshetznerChorus: A Fast Single-Writer WAL Built on Google Cloud Storage
Chorus is a single-writer WAL built directly on Google Cloud Storage, delivering regional durability at single-zone latency without Kafka or etcd.
distributed-systemsgoogle-cloudwrite-ahead-logrustArcadeDB Adds OpenTelemetry Tracing and Kubernetes Health Probes
ArcadeDB expands cloud observability with four opt-in pillars: deeper metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, structured JSON logging and Kubernetes health probes.
arcadedbopentelemetrykubernetesobservabilityMicrosoft's DocumentDB Reimagines NoSQL on PostgreSQL
Microsoft open-sourced its vCore Cosmos DB engine as DocumentDB, a PostgreSQL-based NoSQL layer with MongoDB-compatible APIs, BSON support, and ambitions to become a NoSQL standard.
nosqlpostgresqlmongodbazureSolo Dev Built a Sharded Go Library with WAL Instead of Kafka
A solo developer built Flux, a sharded, WAL-backed Go library for batching database writes instead of running Kafka or Redis, ensuring crash safety.
godatabasesconcurrencyperformanceA Periodic Table of System Design: 40+ Shared Principles
Georgia Tech researcher Joy Arulraj distills over 100 influential papers into a shared taxonomy of 40+ system design principles spanning databases, OS, and distributed systems.
systems designcomputer-sciencedistributed-systemsdatabases