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We're building the boring backend for apps and agents

Bryan Clark

We're building the boring backend for apps and agents

Neon is positioning itself as a reliable backend infrastructure provider for modern applications and AI agents. The company argues against building entirely new infrastructure for…

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Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0: Hard Fork, OLM Scoping, Major Upgrades

Slava Sarzhan

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0: Hard Fork, OLM Scoping, Major Upgrades

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0 completes its hard fork from Crunchy Data's operator, becoming fully independent. Key changes include renaming Custom Resource Definitions to…

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How to hack Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: Insights from contributors

Zhijie Hou

How to hack Logical Replication in PostgreSQL: Insights from contributors

Logical replication in PostgreSQL has evolved significantly since its introduction and is now widely adopted for cross-version upgrades, multi-region deployments, and real-time an…

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Unify Your Plant-Floor Data with Claude Code and TimescaleDB

Damaso Sanoja

Unify Your Plant-Floor Data with Claude Code and TimescaleDB

This article demonstrates using Claude Code Agent Teams to build industrial data collection clients that unify plant floor protocols (Modbus/TCP, OPC UA, MQTT) into a single Times…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Amit Kapila reviews the REPACK CONCURRENTLY patch, providing minor comments on the implementation. He suggests adding clarification that manually advancing the replication slot is…

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Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication

The discussion focuses on testing v37 of a patch for conflict log history tables in logical replication. Nisha Moond raised concerns about potential issues with large tuple data i…

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POC: enable logical decoding when wal_level = 'replica' without a server restart

The discussion centers on an open item for PostgreSQL 19 regarding enabling logical decoding when wal_level is set to 'replica' without requiring a server restart. Masahiko Sawada…

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Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster

Daniel Gustafsson and Tomas Vondra are discussing fixes for data checksum state changes in PostgreSQL v19. They identified a bug where checksum state updates don't emit a procsign…

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generic plans and "initial" pruning

Amit Langote has submitted a redesigned patch series for implementing pruning-aware locking in PostgreSQL's cached plan execution. The architectural change moves execution lock ac…

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Industry News

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

techcrunch.com

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

Anthropic has completed a $65 billion Series H funding round, reaching a post-money valuation of $965 billion. This massive fundraise is believed to be the company's final private…

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new 'dynamic workflow' tool

techcrunch.com

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new 'dynamic workflow' tool

Anthropic has released Opus 4.8, its latest AI model, featuring a new capability called Dynamic Workflows. This tool is designed to coordinate swarms of subagents, enabling more c…

Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth 3 weeks ago

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Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth 3 weeks ago

Startup company Corgi has announced a $106 million funding round at a $2.6 billion valuation, just three weeks after closing a previous funding round. The rapid valuation increase…

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