Charity
A friend of mine is raising funds for a pickup truck for the Zaporizhzhia direction. Right now, about 1/3 of the sum is there. You can donate to this Monobank jar:
https://send.monobank.ua/jar/8Mjotj4Uei
More info in this Instagram post (in Ukrainian).
Digest
PostgreSQL’s MVCC is bad. So is everyone else’s - an article on the tradeoffs Postgresql does to ensure consistency as well as the comparison with the tradeoffs other DB engines make to achieve the same goals. Quote: ... if someone tells you a database has solved multi-versioning, ask them the four questions: where do old versions live, which way do chains point, what do indexes point at, and who cleans up. Then ask what happens when a transaction stays open over lunch.
How we built a software factory to drive Astro’s GitHub issue count to zero - so-called software factory is a hot topic at the moment! Here Cloudflare explains how they built one.
Load Testing Apollo Router - my own article on load testing of a GraphQL API gateway.
The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead - a detailed wrap-up on the incident when an OpenAI LLM broke the perimeter and hacked Hugging Face.
Per-engineer cost attribution for Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock: a complete guide - an article by a colleague of mine on how to calculate LLM usage cost per developer when using Claude and Amazon Bedrock.
The Shape of Go - a neat visualization of the Go package ecosystem.
This is all for today! As you can see, I did not forget about it this time. However, it also means that there are fewer articles to share. If you want to get updates earlier, you can subscribe to my Telegram channel!
