
We Doubled Our Database Connections. The API Got Slower. Hereโs What We Missed
A write-up on why doubling PostgreSQL connections in a Spring Boot application made the API slower, despite healthy database and CPU metrics.
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A write-up on why doubling PostgreSQL connections in a Spring Boot application made the API slower, despite healthy database and CPU metrics.

A single ALTER TABLE migration in PostgreSQL froze 27 application pods, illustrating database locking risks during deployment.

The article presents a blueprint for migrating business spreadsheets into PostgreSQL.

Introduces ProtoDB, an embedded immutable transactional object database for Python without a server or SQL.
The article describes a Valkey heap overflow fix in cluster publish message handling and how the Redis service count fails to identify cluster mode.
Redis Cluster multi-key commands are restricted unless all keys hash to the same slot, and a ClusterUtil.batch approach is described to handle this.
A checklist explains how to secure Supabase row-level security for apps built with AI app builders.

The article describes how a Postgres 18 io_method default change caused a database outage when three processes ran concurrently.

A developer guide covers using Mem0 with Oracle AI Database for storing, searching, and managing application memory.

A database CPU spike to 95% is analyzed, finding that connection storms and lock contention mattered more than the most expensive query.
Covers detecting, measuring, and rebuilding PostgreSQL indexes to fix bloat without downtime on live tables.
PostgreSQL 18.7 minor release fixes 52 CVEs and changes how C extensions interact with the server.

A customer was charged twice after a Kafka consumer processed a message more than once despite safeguards.

A debugging account of Kafka consumers running healthily while messages fell 40 minutes behind, with PostgreSQL responding normally.
A GitHub project introduces Git-style version control for Postgres data designed for agents.
FreeBSD and bhyve are gaining live-migration support, as described in an RFC post.
A walkthrough of change data capture from Postgres into Redshift using an external schema.
A Laravel chunk() behavior issue that silently skips rows when processing large database tables, along with other Eloquent mistakes.
Explains the Supabase lint error for RLS disabled in public tables and what it means.
DDBD, the database behind Skapi, is now available as free and open source software on Linux and macOS.
A walkthrough of copying live Durable Objects to avoid EU placement issues, with a warning about a single deploy call emptying existing workspaces.
An explanation of implementing row-level security for multi-tenant SaaS on PostgreSQL.
A researcher describes exploiting a 22-year-old PostgreSQL composite-type vulnerability.

A hands-on guide explains vLLM techniques such as PagedAttention and continuous batching for faster, more memory-efficient LLM inference in Python.
Supabase security findings show that row-level security accounts for only a quarter of the issues found.

A benchmark comparison of Redis 8.10.3 and Dragonfly 2.0.0 across pipelining, payload size, and latency.
ClickHouse announces its acquisition of Xata, a database-focused company.

An article examines database index mechanics and the trade-offs indexes introduce for query performance.
A discussion of the QuePaxa consensus algorithm, an unusual approach to distributed agreement.
Cloudflare describes how it reduced the memory footprint of the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver cache by about 100 terabytes through optimization.
Describes architecture decisions for an email API built on Kafka, ClickHouse, and OpenSearch to avoid losing accepted mail.
Researchers used AI-generated molecular fingerprints to identify existing compounds with therapeutic potential.
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